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valuable work were left to the college 

 of Oxford ; at which place it was re- 

 published in 1770, in folio ; the plates 

 are in number 1085, containing 1150 

 shells, and a considerable quantity of 

 plates of fossils. 



* Recreatis mentis et oculi in obser- 

 vatione Animalium Testaceoruni,' a 

 Phil. Bonanne, published at Rome in 

 1684, 4to ; contains a great many 

 plates of different shells ; many of 

 them are, however, reversed, which 

 makes them of little value in refer- 

 ring to. 



' Geo. Everp. Rumpbfius Thesau- 

 rus Imarginum Piscium Testaceorum,' 

 1711, folio, contains 8S plates on 

 shells, 



* Descriptio Thesauri Rerum Na- 

 turlium,^ published at Amsterdam in 

 1758, vol. 3rd, contains 61 plates on 

 Conchology. 



D'Argenville's * L'histoire naturelle 

 eclaircie dans une de ses parties prin-r 



