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Breynius de Polythalamiis, Dantzick, 

 1732, in 4to. has given us, from p. 3 to 

 p. 5, his thoughts on Shells, and a fhoit 

 iyftem : which fcheme he afterwards print- 

 ed in a loofe flieet, without date, place, 

 or author's name. 



The fourth author is the celebrated 

 Linnrieus, who, in his feveral editions of 

 his S\ftcma Naturae, has methodized the 

 teftaceous animals ; but more fully in his 

 laft or twelfth edition, publifhed at Stock- 

 holm, in T/67, in 8vo. This learned 

 naturalift has given a few bad figures, in 

 fome of the former editions. 



Mr. Davila, in his Catalogue Syflema- 

 tique & Raifonne des Curiofites de fon Ca- 

 binet, printed at Paris, in 1767, in French, 

 in three volumes in 8vo. This fine col- 

 leftion was fold at Paris the following 

 year. The firfl volume only treats of 

 Shells, and is illuftrated with twenty 

 plates of rare Ipecies. Moft of the figures 

 are good : and this work, though a mecr 

 E 4 catalogue 



