ieedale: book notes. 79 



As noted by Sherborn, no new specific or generic names appear. The 

 Miillerian work has nothing much to do with this. The title-page 

 begins " DeHciae Naturae Selectae . . . von Gr. W. Knorr fortgesetzet 

 von Dessen Erben von Philipp Ludwig Statins Miiller ' with French 

 translation by M. V. de la Blaquiere.' " It is a work in two large 

 folio volumes, published at Ntirnberg in 1766-1767. The work covers 

 every branch of the animal and mineral kingdom, and is not solely 

 a conchological work as the well-known Knorrian work is. The 

 text is in parallel columns in German and French, and only pp. 33-60 

 deal with shells, explaining plates B to B vi. 



Pages 127-132 are devoted to a " Register " in German, a " Table " 

 in French, while p. 129 covers the seven plates dealing with shells. 

 Throughout the work no systematic treatment appears, and though 

 Miiller writes of genera, he was not using the word in our sense. 



The explanations to the figures of shells on p. 129 are all in the 

 vernacular, but sometimes a Latin equivalent is given and these 

 were quoted by Sherborn as already cited. 



The complete list of figures is forty-eight, and the following Latin 

 equivalents are added : Nautilus crassus Rumpkii, Nautilus 

 papyraceus, Harpago Rumphii, Pecten R., Buccinum, Lagena R., 

 Rapa R., Chama squamata R., Mitra episcopalis R., Valuta musicalis 

 R., Tellina violacea R., Alata, Gylindus (in the other column 

 Cylinder) maximus, Porcellana montosa R., Turris babylonica R., 

 Avicula, Ostreum plicatum majus R., Pinna, Fusus hrevis. Tribulus 

 R., Valuta arenata R., Patella., Buccinum tutonis R., Cynibium R., 

 Cymbium, Buccinum ampullatum List. Ellis, and Vespertilio and 

 Melicera R. 



It is obvious that Miiller is simply quoting the Rumphian Latin 

 name, and that none of these names has any validity in our modern 

 nomenclatural usage. 



Walch's edition is also different, though, a reprint of the preceding. 

 After Miiller's name on the title-page appears : " von neuen 

 libersehen, verbessert, und mit einer Vorrede begleitet von Johann 

 E. J. Walch." It is all in German, and was published at Niirnberg 

 in 1778. The text is rewritten with a full synonymy to previous 

 workers, such as Aldrovandi, Rumph, Pallas, Linne, etc., but is 

 no more systematic in the text than the previous one. The plates 

 are the same and the '' Register " is the same, but to each figure 

 is added the Linnean name. No new names appear, and when the 

 Linnean ones are seen alongside the Rumphian ones the latter were 

 never considered at all. 



A Dutch translation of Knorr's work was published at Amsterdam 

 in 1770-5, and there is also apparently a Dutch translation of 

 Miiller's work as shown by the following entry : — 



" Knorr (G. W.) and Miiller (P. L. S.). Delicise Naturae Selectae, 

 of Uitgeleezen Kabinet van Natuurlyke Natur Zeldzaamheden. 

 About 90 large coloured plates, large folio, calf. Dordrecht, 1771." 



