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THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



NOTES ON COLONEL MONTAGU'S COLLECTION OF 

 BRITISH SHELLS. 



By J. GWYN JEFFREYS, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Mr. D'Urban, the Curator of the Devon and Exeter Albert 

 Memorial Museum at Exeter, has kindly enabled me to examine 

 the original and typical collection of British shells which belonged 

 to the late Colonel Montagu ; and I thought a few words on the 

 collection might be interesting to the readers of the "Journal of 

 Conchology." Montagu's handwriting is quite familiar to me, 

 from having had a great many opportunities of seeing it in former 

 years, when I was a frequent guest of his old correspondent and 

 friend, the late Mr. L. W. Dillwyn. My remarks will only apply 

 to those specimens which are named and referred to in his lists 

 and the corresponding numbers. Several specimens are missing, 

 although the greatest care has evidently been taken by Mr. 

 D'Urban in the protection of the collection. But "'tis nearly 

 sixty years since" the death of Montagu; and private collections 

 of natural history are never preserved intact during so long a 

 period. 



J.C., ii., Jan., 187^. 



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