SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON MARTYN'S UNIVERSAL 

 CONCHOLOGIST. 



By Willia:m Healp:y Dall, 



Curator, Dirisian of }follii>ikK, I'. S. Xdlioiidl Miitteniit. 



The publication of an account" of Martini and his famous worlv on 

 the shells of the South Seas by me in 1905, had the hoped-for effect, in 

 that it was the means of brinsj'ing out supplementary information 

 which enal)les me to supply data missing at the date of the first paper 

 and to confirm conclusions which in it were arrived at by circumstan- 

 tial evidence. Next to the positive determination that the first SO 

 plates were published in ITS-t, the most important data relate to the 

 correction of the so-called reprint issued b}- Chenu of the tal)les for 

 the second 80 j)lates, which turns out to be entirely unreliable. The 

 new information comes from widely scattered sources. 



The copy containing the first 80 plates, belonging to the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, is about the same size as the 

 National Museum copy (12i by 10-^ inches) and is of the same date. 

 It contains a publisher's circular offering the work separately printed 

 on an octavo sheet dated 1787, and a manuscript note''^ stating that the 

 Duke of York's copy sold for 10 guineas. The plates and ta))les 

 agree with those of the Museum copy. 



The second copy examined was sent from South Dakota b}^ a collector 

 who sold it to Mr. John B. Henderson, jr., of Washington, and like- 

 wise consisted of 80 plates elegantly bound. This was evidently one 

 of the "select copies'" of the tirst issue, as it is on folio sheets (1(1^ by 

 16^ inches), and is dated after the first engraved title, "1784." and 

 after the second engraved title has "MDCCLXXXIV | Tomkins 

 scripsit ! Ellis sc." | in small letters. This plate and the dedication 

 are larger than those in the quarto edition and printed from a different 

 engraved plate, although the wording is the same as in the quarto 

 copies. There are no plates of medals. The text is worded the same 



«Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIX, 1905, No. 1425, pp. 415-432. 



&Taken from an account of the sale in the London Times, May 24, 1827. 



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