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CONCHOLOGY. 



History. 



Da Costa, 

 1776. 



Cose. 



Bose's ar- 

 rangement. 



Gen. 3. Pholas. Valvulae ad cardinem minores. 



We are under the greatest obligations to this author, 

 for the extension of our knowledge of the inhabitants 

 of the testacea, and for the excellent figures of those 

 which he has given. 



Da Costa, whose elements of conchology appeared in 

 1776, attempted a new arrangement of shells. Labour- 

 ing to steer clear of the system of the Swedish natural- 

 ist, against whom he throws out several abusive stric- 

 tures, he invented so many new terms, that his system 

 never gained him much reputation. He was, however, 

 well versed in the science of conchology. 



To the modern naturalists of France, the science of 

 conchology is under great obligations. They have stu- 

 died the structure of the animals which inhabit shells 

 with care, and have struck out several new views, to 

 aid us in the formation of a natural system. 



The work of L. A. Bose, entitled Histoire Naturelle 

 des Coquilles, des Vers et des Crustaces, contains a new 

 arrangement of shells, differing somewhat from the Lin- 

 naean, and, in our opinion, preferable to that system. 

 The following is a tabular view of his system. 



I. Coquilles. Multivalves. - 

 1 . Les lines n'oid point de charniire. 



Genre Oscabrion. 

 Anatif. 



Genre Balanite. 



2. Les autres en ont une. 



Genre Pholade. Genre Anomie. 



Taret. Calceole. 



Fistulane. 



II. Coquilles Bivalves. 

 1. Elles sont on Inequivalves. 



Seure 



Terebratule. 



Genre Avicule. 





Cranie. 



Marteau. 





Lingule. 



Hyale. 



Orbicule. 



Vulselle. 



Huitre. 



Gryptee. 





Corbule. 



Plicatule 





Pandore. 

 Houlette. 



Spondyle. 

 Came. 





Lime. 



Acarde. 





Peigne. 

 Placune. 



Radiolite. 

 Erodone. 





Perne. 







2. Ou 



i 

 Equivalves. 



Genre Mye. 



Genre Mactre. 





Glycemere. 



Crassatelle 





Solen. 

 Telline. 



Trigonie. 

 Hiatelle. 





Cyclade. 

 Venus. 



Cucullee. 

 Arche, 





Onguline. 



Nucule. 





Donace. 



Mulette. 





Carditte. 



Anodonte. 





Hippope. 

 Tridacne. 



Moule. 

 Pinne. 





Bucarde. 





* Sont ou en calotte. 

 Genre Patelle. 



Oscane. 

 ** Ou en tube. 

 Genre Vermiculaire. 



Silicaire. 



Arrosoir. 

 B. Celles qui sont sans spirale. 



* Sont ou l'ouverture entiere et sans canal a sa base. 



History. 



Bose's ar. 

 rangementi 



Genre Carinaire. 



Genre Helice. 



Haliotoide. 



Volvaire. 



Sigaret. 



Bulle. 



Stomate. 



Jacinthe. 



Argonaute. 



Turritelle. 



Concholepas. 



Cyclostome 



Nerite. 



Bulime. 



Natice. 



Sabot. 



Helicine. 



Toupie. 



** Ou l'ouverture echancree et canaliculee a sa base, 



Genre Cerite. Genre Vis. 



Pyrule. Pourpre. 



Rocher. Volute. 



Rostelaire. Ovule. 



Strombe. Tarriere. 



Buccin. Porcelaine. 



Casque. Cone. 



2. Ou Mulliloculaires. 



Genre Nautile. 

 Orbidite. 

 Ammonite. 

 Planulite. 

 Camerine. 

 Rotulite. 



Genre Turrilite. 

 Bacuhte. 

 Spirule. 

 Orthocee. 

 Hippurite. 

 Belemnite. 



The name of Bruguiere will long be remembered. Bruguiere; 

 He had undertaken the helminthological department of 

 the Encyclopedic Melhodique, but a premature death de- 

 prived the world of his labours. He had finished the 

 first volume of the article Vers, which does not go be- 

 yond the letter C. The figures which he subjoined are 

 faithful representations. To Lamarck, we are indebted Lamarck, 

 for several judicious observations on the system of Bru- 

 guiere. Afterwards he published his Systeme des Ant- 

 maux sans Verlebres, in which a new arrangement of tes- 

 taceous bodies is attempted. This system of Lamarck's 

 was afterwards inore fully illustrated by Latreille, in his Latreille, 

 Tableau Melhodique des Mollusques, inserted in the 24th 1804. 

 vol. of the Nouveau Dictionnaire d' Histoire Naturelle. 

 The following short view of his system, will serve to 

 illustrate the principles upon which it is formed. The 

 animals which inhabit shells are described, along with 

 the Linnsean mollusca, in his fifth class Mollusques, and 

 in his sixth class, to which he has given the name or 

 Annelides. This last class includes the annular mollus- 

 ca of Linnasus, and a few of the inhabitants of testace* 

 ous bodies. 



ORDRE PREMIER. CEPHALES CEPHALA. Lat re51Ie-* 



arrange. 

 Une tete distincte et mobile ; souvent des yeux. menu 



III. Coquilles Univalves. 



1. Elles sont ou Uniloculairc. 

 A. Celles qui sont en spirale. 



Sect*. I. Cors nu. 



Genre Sigaret, Sigarelus. 

 Oscabrion, Chiton. 



