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Strombi, or, as commonly fo called, he 

 places in family ninths which he names 

 Murex. 



Such tfahfpolitions of naiiies, frorii one 

 objedl to another, is not a trivial affair : 

 it creates a vaft confulion in fcience. Names 

 given to bodies that are univerfally autho- 

 rized and adopted by cuftom^ though they 

 are not even very appofite or proper, 

 fhould be kept facred, arid continued v/ith- 

 out interruption : and v» hen once a body, 

 or fet of bodies, have obtained an efta- 

 blifhed or fixed name, certainly no writer 

 whatever, to gratify his pride or his fancy, 

 has a right to tranfpofe it : they only have 

 a right to frame hew and corredl names^ 

 more appofite and fcientifical, to define 

 fuch bodies by ; but to tranfpofe names 

 from one to another very different object^ 

 is a wantonnefs can never be juftified. 



The next author in rank is Mr. Davila. 

 This gentleman arranges his Shells on 

 d'Argenville's fyflem, though not without 



H 2 making 



