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Conchae. 



Lectures 1752. 



Solen. 

 Solen. 



Solen 



Mya. Pholas. 



Tellina 



Buccardiiim 



CunnUvS 



Pholas 



Chama 



Xotes in RuMPH. 



SolcB 



Mya. Pholas. 



Tellina 



Buccardium 



Trunculus 



Cunnus 



Pholas 



Pholas 



Tel Lentula 



Spondylus Spondylus 



Area Area 



Ostreum Ostreiim 



Anomia. Myt. Chama. Mytilus. Spondylus. 

 Pecten Pecten 



Ostreum 



Mvtulus Mytulus 



Ostreum 



Ostreum 



Pinn 



a 



Pi 



inna 



1758, and sueh as the\' still exist as families. A few were 

 abortive, such as Cunnus, Pholas, Chama, which were remo- 

 delled afterwards and mergcd into Venus, while ]\Ioriou and 

 Turricula, not mentioned in the Lectures, Avere dropped. 

 Chiton, Donax and Spondylus were imrepresented in the Queen'8 

 cabinet. The géneric names chosen, mostly from older au- 

 thors, were little more than provisional, some to be altered 

 afterwards, as certainly was one among them, suggested by 

 the Venus Dione and hardly ht for a work dedicated to the 

 Queen. Old appellations, as Voluta, as used by Rumphius, 

 and Cylindrus, seem to have been thought to do well enough 

 for the occasion, while Conus L. and Voluta L. were already 

 in store, to appcar in the final work. 



It has been seen that the uumbering of the species in 

 the Lectures, all through the first seven genera from Cypraea 

 to Cassida inclusivelv, oenerallv agrees with that of the same 

 species in the copy of Rumphius, in such a way however, that 



