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Columna defcrlbed and figured fome 

 foffil kinds. Lifter has alio figured feveral 

 in his Appendix de Conchitis to his Hifto- 

 ria Conchyllorum 5 but no recent kind be- 

 ing difcovered fo early, is the reafon that 

 neither he, Buonanni, Rumphius, or other 

 early authors, have taken any notice of 

 them. 



Woodward v/as the fiift who arranged 

 the Anomias from the foffil Shells. He 

 kept the eftabliflied name, and ranked 

 them with the Shells of unequal valves, 

 and not eared; and further defined them to 

 have both valves convex, and one of them 

 beaked. He then arranged them into 

 fmooth,ftriated, and fulcated, each of which 

 articles has feveral necefi'ary fubdivifions. 



WoodvvTird had only foffil Shells to in- 

 fpe£l, confequently could not accurately 

 define their peculiar interior ftrudlure, or 

 their hinge : his definition however is 



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