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iland high in reputation, to wliom we have referred in 

 general ; efpeciallv the copious works of the two for- 

 mer, whofe numerous figures have, by the aid of Gmel- 

 iN, enabled us to afcertain many of the Linnaean fpecies. 



Of englifh teftaceological authors, there are few 

 who have treated on the fubjeft at large ; amongft thefe 

 LiSTEPv {lands foremoft, and who firfl: attempted a de- 

 fcription of englifli fhells in 1678, in his Hiftoria Ani- 

 malium Angliee ; and afterwards his Synopfis, which 

 contains, amongft a vaft variety of foreign fpecies, all 

 his englifti fhells, with additions. This work was finifh- 

 ed in 1694, and the laft edition was publiftied at Oxford 

 in 1770, under the infpeftion of Doftor Huddesford. 



After Lister, Petiver was the only one for fomc 

 years, who added to conchology any thing new, except 

 a few provincial hiftorians. Plot, Morton, Borlase, 

 Dale and others. Nothing, however, appeared in the 

 leaft compleat on the fubjefi;, exclufively on englifh fliclls, 

 for near a century after the writings of Lister, when 

 Mr. Pexkant treated profeffedly on that hiftory, in 

 the fourth volume of his Britifta Zoology, publiftied in 

 1777, to the no fmall advantage of that fcience, by the 

 addition of a great number of well executed figures, and 

 by far the greater part of what he defcribed ; in which 

 he nearly adhered to the Linnsean fyftem. 



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