IG SVEN I.OVKN, ON THE KCHINOIDEA DESCRIBEl) BY LINN.EUS. 



tliis is secn in tlie contemporaneous schediiles. They are 

 iicarlv all onlv generic namcs and among the Cochlcoe almost 

 cverv one is followed bv a number, as for instance /Murex 

 12», »Nerita 4», tlic same, no doubt, as that which at that time 

 marked the species within its genus, iu the pack of schedules. 

 To a verv few onlv a »nomen triviale» is added, mostly a 

 quotation from RuMrHius, and in this case there is no num- 

 ber. ]t cannot be doubted tliat these peucil-notes were made 

 by LiNN.EUS himself whon he hrst deseribed the shells of the 

 Museum Reginte. 



An important manuscript, one of the relics preserved in 

 the librarv of the Linnean Society, has been carefully discus- 

 scd by FIanley ^), the learned author of »Ipsa Linn.ei Con- 

 chylia:, and many other excellent works. It is not written 

 down bv LiNN.EUS himself; but iu another and very legible 

 hand, with alterations and interpolations in Linx.eus' own pe- 

 culiar handwriting. It contains a series of his genera, such 

 as they were conceived at an early period, and a large num- 

 b(>r of species with their »ditferentife» and references. 



lierbarium. But nothiug daunted be with the aid of his sou AuGUSTUS 

 and a dvaughtsman sent him from Batavia, contrived to have them done 

 il second time. and in 1692 the lirst six parts of the work could be sent 

 to Holland with the homeward-bound Heet. This however was attacked 

 by the French and the Admiralship on board of which was the package 

 went to the bottom. Fortunately his fricud the Governor General Camp- 

 HUIS had previonsly taken care to have the parts thus löst copied twice. 

 and thus he could now. in 1696, forward them a second time to Holland 

 and along with them three more parts which in the meantime had been 

 sent in by IIUMPHIUS, as also with the last vessels of that year the three 

 concludiug parts. At Amsterdam the work was laid before :the Seveuteen> 

 who deigned as a recompense to promote the author"s son to the office 

 of Merchant. and then permitted it to lie almost buried in oblivion till 

 in 1736 BuEMANN succeeded in brlnging it to light, and having it pu- 

 blished 1741—1705. — The MS of the »A^mboinische Rariteiten-Kammerj 

 was sent by its author in 1699 to his friend d'AcqUET at Delft. a great 

 coUector under whose auspices it was published in 170.5 by Schynvokt. 

 who added a number of figures, partly intended to represeut species 

 nientioned but not ligured in the original, and accounted for these tigures 

 iu the postscripts iu italics appended to the various chapters. — Three 

 other works of KUMPHius. on the History of Amboina. on its Geography, 

 and on its mamuialia. birds, reptiles and fishes, were published by Valex- 

 TYN in his description of the East Indies, as it seems without mentioning 

 the real authors name. — The collections of Rumphius never came to 

 Europé. He died at Amboina on the l.S:th of June 1702. — See: Hen- 

 SCHEL, Vita G. E. RuMPHii, Dissertatio, Bresiau, 18:^:?. Leupe: Geor- 

 gius Evi;rakdl'S Rumphiu?;, ambonsch Natuurkuudige der zeventiende 

 eeuw. Verhandelingen der Koningklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. 

 Twaalfde Deel, Amsterdam 1871. Bickmore, Travels in the East India 

 Archipelago, p. 250, London 1868. 



') Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology, 

 IV, p. 4:j. 



