SECTION V^ 103 



It is only laudable to colled; bi^t when 

 a Golledor alfo makes it his ftudy, to 

 contemplate fcientifically the natural cu- 

 riofities he acquires, he then adds the 

 refpeft of mankind to the praife already 

 gained by his alfiduity^ 



As on this view I have prefumed to 

 trouble the learned with this treatife, 

 which I (hall ftrive to render inftruftive, 

 .as well as meerly curious, fo far as the 

 fubjefl: of Conchology will permit ; I think 

 it further necefiary to lay down fome 

 rules to enable even the colledors as well 

 as the fludious, to be aiding or ^ffifting to 

 the ftudy. 



Dr. Woodward judicioufly obferves *, 

 that affuredly, the man who fliould fpend 

 his whole life in amaffing together ftone, 

 timber, and other materials for build- 

 ing, without eyer aiming at the making 



* Preface to Catalogue of Engllfli felHIs, p. xiii. 



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