1642 
1653 
1657 
1667-68 
1675 
440  MELVILL: THE PRINCIPLES OF NOMENCLATURE. 
concerned. There were two Beslers, the younger brother, 
M. P. BrEsLer, published in 1642 ‘‘Gazophylacium rerum 
naturalium,” including a few figures of shells. 
D. OLaus WorMIus in 1653 published an account of his 
private museum, figuring the Zefas anatifera on p. 256 of 
the work. 
Jounston, of Amsterdam, in 1657, gave to the world his 
“ Historia naturalis de exsanguibus aquaticis,” figuring some 
leading shells, and he followed this up with another work, 
“Thaumatographia naturalis,” 1665. 
DE RocHFort, in Paris, 1667, and ADAM OLEARIUS, in 
1668, both published conchological treatises, the former on the 
shells of the Caribbees, with figures of a few species, the latter 
” 
the ‘“‘Museum Gottorpianum,” a quarto work, containing an 
account of the collection of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, 
with fine plates of shells, referred to by Linnzus in his 
“Systema Nature.” 
The celebrated “Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum” 
was next to see the light, published in London by MERRET in 
1667. This is the earliest catalogue extant of the natural 
history of our country. The conchological portion, however, 
is extremely scanty. 
Dr. CHARLETON, or CARLETON, author of the ‘‘Onom- 
asticon zoicum,” 1668, followed Aldrovandus, and Johnston of 
Amsterdam, to whom we have just alluded, in his arrangement 
of Testacea. He admits ten univalve genera, and several 
bivalve, these latter being most artificially and unsuccessfully 
separated by their rough or smooth surfaces, as conchae laeves 
and conchae asperae. 
D. Major, the annotator of the work of Fabius Columna, 
published his “ Dictionarium Ostralogicum” in 1675. He 
divides all shells into two classes only, Vxzvalvia and Plurivalvia, 
the second divided into two sub-sections, the latter being 
Lepades. Lovell Reeve, in his introduction to the “‘Conchologia 
Systematica,” considers him one of the most important fore- 
runners in the science. 
J.C., viii., Oct., 1897. 
