CONCHOLOGICAL AUTHORS. 



JL HE following works, to which we have generally and 

 almost exclusively referred, and of which we will endeavour 

 to give a short account, will probably furnish a library fully 

 competent to all the purposes of a complete knowledge of 

 British Conchology, both in description and delineation, as 

 far as it has hitherto been illustrated. The learner may also 

 avail himself of the Elementary Introductions qf Brooks, 

 Brown, or Burrow. 



Broun, JVern. Soc. Account of the Irish Testacea; by 

 Thomas Brown, Esq. F.L.S. M.W.S. M. K. S. &c. in 

 vol. ii. part 2. of The Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, 

 with a plate of some new and rare subjects. 



We are anxious to correct an error, for which, as it may 

 have originated in our own carelessness, we cannot but con- 

 sider ourselves in a great measure responsible. Among a 

 parcel of shells which we transmitted to Captain Brown, 

 as collected on the Irish coasts, there was by accident in- 

 cluded the spiral termination of Serpula lumbricalis, which 

 he has figured and described under the name of Turbo pen* 

 tangularis. 



Da Costa. The British Conchology, by Emanuel Da 

 Costa, quarto, 1778, with 17 colored plates. One of the 

 truly original works on this subject. One hundred and 

 twenty-seven species are well delineated, and many more 

 faithfully and minutely described, both in English and 

 French, all from the subjects themselves. The arrange- 

 ment is not according to the Linnean system : but it pos- 

 sesses the rare, and we believe unique, excellence of giving 

 the whole of the synonyms in the words of the respective 

 authors themselves. 



To the student who may wish to compare his specimens 

 the figures of this author, it may be proper to remark, 



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