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Lamarck, Annal. du Mus. vol. xv. p. 438, n. 176. 



Dillwyn, Cat. i. p. 424. 



Wood, Ind. Test. t. 16. f. 134. 



Delessert, Rec. 40. f. 16. 



Sowerby, TankerTille Catalogue, 1825, pi. 8. f. i, 2. 



Deshayes, Lamarck, 2 ed. xi. p. 126. 



EiseTe, Oonchologia Iconica, pi. 6. f. 31. 



Kiener, Coquilles Vivantes, p. 326, t. 76. f. i. 



Sowerby, Thesaurus Conch, pi. 24. f. 526. 



Tryon (G. W.), Manual of Couchology, 1884, vol. 6. pi. 29. f. 90, 



There is also a figure of the species in 



Chenu, Manuel de CoHchyliologie, p. 249, f. 1525. 



Dr. S. P. Woodward, in 'Recreative Science^ (i860), 

 says : — " The rarest of all Cones, and perhaps of all shells, 

 except the living Pleurotomaria, is the Conus gloria maris, 

 which those old Pagan Dutchmen worshipped, as did the 

 Greeks the Paphian Venus. Perhaps it was this Cone 

 of which a Prenchman is related to have had the only 

 specimen except one belonging to Hwass, the great 

 Dutch collector, and when this came to the hammer he 

 outbid every rival, and then crushed it beneath his heel, 

 exclaiming, 'Now my specimen is the only one.' Doubt- 

 less many traditions respecting this species yet linger in 

 the marts of Amsterdam; with us it is still worth ten 

 times its weight in gold.'^ 



In 1825 the elder Mr. Sowerby, in cataloguing the shells 

 of the late Earl of Tankerville — which catalogue formed 

 the medium for the description, for the first time, of 

 many now well-known species — notes, in his preface at 

 the lot 2463, which contained a gloria maris : — " We have 

 never seen more than two specimens of this shell, namely, 

 that which is in M. Saulier's collection in Paris, and that 

 which adorns the Tankerville collection.'" 



It will not be out of place now to enumerate the where- 

 abouts of the II or 12 specimens known to exist. It is a 



