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  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 
  NOTES. 
  

  

  I. 
  ON 
  A 
  SET 
  OF 
  THE 
  BLATES 
  PREPARED 
  BY 
  THE 
  REV. 
  THOS. 
  

   RACKETTC?) 
  TO 
  ILLUSTRATE 
  THE 
  SHELLS 
  DESCRIBED 
  

   IN 
  THE 
  SECOND 
  EDITION 
  OF 
  HUTCHINS' 
  HISTORY 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  

   OF 
  THE 
  COUNTY 
  OF 
  DORSET. 
  

   II. 
  ON 
  LOVELL 
  REEVE'S 
  INITIAMENTA 
  CONCHOLOGICA, 
  OR 
  

   ELEMENTS 
  OF 
  CONCHOLOGY, 
  WITH 
  THE 
  ASCERTAINED 
  

   DATES 
  OF 
  PUBLICATION 
  OF 
  THE 
  PARTS. 
  

  

  ]3y 
  Alexander 
  Hetnell. 
  

  

  Read 
  14th 
  January, 
  1916. 
  

  

  1. 
  TUK 
  COXCHOLOGICAL 
  PlATES 
  AS 
  PRKI'AllED 
  FOK 
  THE 
  SeCOND 
  EdITION 
  

  

  OF 
  HuTCHiNs' 
  HisioiiY 
  OF 
  Dohskt. 
  

  

  These 
  consist 
  of 
  twenty-three 
  coloured 
  quarto 
  plates 
  numbered 
  in 
  

   manuscript 
  and 
  bound 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  volume. 
  Seventeen 
  of 
  these 
  ])lates, 
  

   before 
  alteration, 
  were 
  used 
  by 
  Da 
  Costa 
  to 
  illustrate 
  bis 
  British 
  

   Co7ichologi/, 
  published 
  in 
  1778. 
  The 
  remaining 
  plates, 
  six 
  in 
  number, 
  

   were 
  specially 
  prepared 
  and 
  engraved 
  by 
  Peter 
  Mazell, 
  wbo, 
  according 
  

   to 
  Bryant's 
  Dictionary 
  of 
  Painters 
  and 
  iJngravers, 
  last 
  edition, 
  was 
  an 
  

   English 
  engraver 
  who 
  flourished 
  about 
  1761-97 
  and 
  worked 
  for 
  

   Pennant 
  and 
  Poydell. 
  It 
  would 
  be 
  interesting 
  to 
  have 
  further 
  

   particulars 
  of 
  this 
  artist. 
  

  

  The 
  volume 
  contains 
  a 
  separate 
  loose 
  manuscript 
  index 
  to 
  the 
  

   figures 
  on 
  each 
  plate, 
  and 
  also 
  a 
  sheet 
  of 
  four 
  pages 
  of 
  foolscap 
  paper 
  

   endorsed 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  References 
  to 
  the 
  descriptions 
  Nos. 
  & 
  Plates 
  in 
  Volume 
  the 
  

   8tli 
  of 
  the 
  Linnean 
  Transactions 
  as 
  to 
  those 
  which 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  contained 
  

   in 
  the 
  Plates 
  lelating 
  to 
  Shells 
  in 
  Hutchings 
  Hist. 
  Dorset 
  and 
  

   Dr. 
  Pulteney's 
  work 
  for 
  that 
  publication. 
  

  

  *' 
  N.B. 
  the 
  Number 
  on 
  the 
  left 
  of 
  each 
  Species 
  refers 
  to 
  the 
  figures 
  

   of 
  the 
  Genera 
  in 
  L. 
  S. 
  Transactions, 
  and 
  the 
  Number 
  of 
  the 
  Figure 
  in 
  

   the 
  work 
  of 
  Dr. 
  P. 
  & 
  to 
  the 
  Figures 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Maton 
  & 
  PteV^ 
  T. 
  Packett 
  

   in 
  their 
  Plates 
  to 
  Hutch. 
  Hist. 
  Dorset"." 
  

  

  The 
  references 
  cover 
  three 
  pages 
  of 
  foolscap 
  paper 
  in 
  double 
  

   columns. 
  

  

  With 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  plates, 
  several 
  have 
  additional 
  engraved 
  and 
  

   coloured 
  figures 
  stuck 
  on, 
  and 
  these 
  in 
  some 
  cases 
  eliminate 
  sjiecies 
  

   which 
  appeared 
  in 
  Da 
  Costa's 
  befoie-mentioned 
  work 
  and 
  which 
  had 
  

   not 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  Dorset: 
  for 
  instance, 
  on 
  plate 
  xii 
  (])late 
  xv 
  in 
  

   Da 
  Costa) 
  the 
  figures 
  of 
  Da 
  Costa's 
  Mi/a 
  margaritifera 
  has 
  been 
  covered 
  

   Avith 
  figures 
  of 
  what 
  are 
  called 
  on 
  the 
  index 
  slip 
  Tellina 
  fabula 
  and 
  

   Tellijia 
  donacina. 
  The 
  source 
  of 
  these 
  extra 
  figures 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  

   ascertained 
  ; 
  perhaps 
  they 
  were 
  specially 
  prepared 
  for 
  the 
  History. 
  

   Hutchins' 
  History 
  of 
  Dorset 
  being 
  a 
  folio, 
  two 
  of 
  these 
  quarto 
  plates 
  

   were 
  printed 
  on 
  a 
  sheet, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  plate 
  xxiii, 
  which 
  

   appears 
  by 
  itself. 
  

  

  