IQ2 ZOOLOGY OF INDIA. 



systematic treatises, exclusively devoted to the subject 

 W as yet in vain endeavoured to accomplish; and al 

 that%! shall therefore here attempt is a cursory noHc- 

 of 1 few of the more remarkable phenomena of msec lifb. 

 ;n?h? first place, however, we shall demote a page or two 

 to the testaceous productions of India, for lucre 



" the gorgeous East 

 Showers on her sons barbaric pearl's and goia ;" 



^vith the species of foreign climes; and they are conse- 



that climate was characterized. ^ , 



WUhout a greater degree of precision than consists with 

 the present stSe of ou? knowledge- it will, however, be a 

 t n'attempt to deduce any general 1-s m rdation to h^s 

 important subject ; for m truth, notwithstanding the spien | 



did collections which exist in several of the B^^vsh ana | 



Continental cabinets, our knovyledge of tl« di^^nbution o^ | 



species is extremely vague and ^"^P^rfect m rega d to aU 

 other countries except those of Europe and J> o-^tli f-"^^^ 

 other 5°""" ^l J especially, we are in almost total j 



.ess -for the coUectors\f Eastern shells have never I 



ica 

 darkness 



