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this species, as his work was published in 1803, and 

 Draparnaud's in 1805. The English conchologists, 

 not paying attention to this fact, have very generally 

 committed an injustice to their countryman, in favour 

 of a foreigner, in a manner of which few foreign 

 naturalists would be guilty. Indeed, few of them 

 have been willing to do sufficient justice to Montagu's 

 great merit ; for he was almost the first zoologist in 

 modern times who attempted to pay any attention to 

 the animals inhabiting shells ; and we should recollect 

 that, during the whole period he was writing, he was 

 shut out by the war from any communication with 

 our Continental brethren, and was solely dependent 

 on his own energies. 



f f Body of animal and mouth of shell compressed, 

 longer than broad, from back to front than from 

 side to side, that is to say, in the direction of the 

 longitudinal axis of the shell. (Bulimina.) 



5. SUCCINEA Drap. (Amber Snail.) 



The animal with a large gelatinous foot, short inflated 

 tentacles, and an oblong spiral body, lying on 

 the upper part of the foot ; body covered with 

 an oval-oblong thin shell, with a short conical 

 spire, and rapidly enlarging whorls, ending in a 

 large longitudinal oblique mouth, with the 

 peristome disunited behind ; pillar smooth, and 

 with an imperforated axis. 



This genus is easily known from Helix and Zonites 

 by the oblong shape ; and from Limnceus, with which 



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