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BOOK NOTES. 

 By Tom Iredale. 

 Read 10th March, 1922. • 



Summary. 



On P. L. S. Miiller's Molluscan Names. 



Pennant's British Zoology. 



Wodarch and Mawe. 



Lamarck's " Hist. Anim. s. Verteb." 



Lessons on Shells. 



Da Costa. 



Renier. 



Reeve's " Elements of Conchology ". 



Wood's " General Conchology ". 



0. G. Costa : " Oss. Zool. Is. Pantelleria." 



On p. L. S. MiJLLER's Molluscan Names. 



When Sherborn drew up his first part of tlie " Index Animalium " 

 he included many doubtful names. This was the correct policy 

 because the recognition of many books was suhjudice. Since then 

 practically all the outstanding items have been settled, and the 

 present note deals with one such. 



In his Bibliography (p. xxxii) Sherborn included 



" Knorr, G. W. Les Delices des yeux, ou Coll. gen. Coquill. 6 vols. 

 4to. Nuremb. 1760-1773. [No n.spp.] 



Delic. nat. Selectee. (Ed. Miiller) 2 pts. 8vo. 



Munich. 1766-67. 



(Ed. Walch) fo. Niirnb. 1778." 



From this entry the first-named well-known work would appear 

 to have been re-edited by Miiller, and consequently many new names 

 might be anticipated. In Sherborn's index one meets with such 

 entries as " Cylinder P. L. S. Miiller, Del. Nat. i. 1766, 129.— G-. 

 Turris P. L. S. Miiller, Del. Nat. i. 1766, 129.— G." 



The latter entry recently attracted the attention of my friend, 

 Mr. Chas. Hedley, who wrote for information since the book was not 

 available to him. 



I was deputed to investigate, and give my results herewith. 

 Knorr published a series of paintings of shells with descriptions in 

 vernacular. On account of their favourable reception a second series 

 was issued, and then a third, to which he added a " Postface " 

 apologizing for lack of systematic treatment because most 

 " amateurs " followed their own system. A fourth series was called 

 for, and then he co-ordinated the shells previously figured with 

 Rumph's System and also with linne's System, of which the tenth 

 and twelfth editions were both quoted. Two more parts were 

 published, and then the shells in these two systematized as before. 



