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fo that we mull ever remain in the dark with refpett to his 

 intentions; indeed, he feems to have been quite unac- 

 quainted with any thing relative to the hillory of the 

 fhell, as a native of this county, and therefore our 

 doubts will the more readily be pardoned. 



This author has referred to a minute fliell in Gu alti- 

 ZRi, tab. 6. fig. B. for his fiiell ; the Buccinum terrejlre 

 of this work, a fpecies not in the lead like what is con- 

 iidered in general by colleftors as the H. oclona of LiN- 

 N^us ; and yet Gmelin has fallen into the fame error, 

 by quoting the fame figure in Gualtieri, though he 

 does not notice Pennant's fhell. 



Doflor TuRTON, of courfe, has followed Gmelin's 

 errors, and has added a reference to Pennant's fhell; 

 though he has omitted the Buccinum Acicula of Mul- 

 LER, which the other has as erroneoufly quoted. 



The H. oBanfracla is, as we have before aflerted, per- 

 fe6ily diftinft from thefe fliells, except that of the Br. 

 Zoology, and poffibly may be entirely new, as hitherto 

 we believe it has only been found in one place, and that 

 in Cornwall, as remarked in the former hiflory of it. 



If it really is a new fpecies, the merit of its difcovery 

 refis with Mr. Gibbs, whofe induftrious exertions for 

 colle£ling, and excellent difcrimination. efpecially of the 

 more minute fpecies, have tended to enrich thefe fheets. 



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