Vlll PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS. 



Beechey (or Beech.) Zool. (or Z) Gray and Sowerby (the former 



chiefly) in the Zoology of Capt. Beechey 's Voyage, 1839. 

 Benson. Benson in Z. J. ; also in Journal of the Asiatic Society of 



Bengal, and Gleanings in Science, vol. ii. (1830). 

 MSS. Benson's unpublished names for Uniones, engraved 



by Wood long ago, but not published until July last. 

 Beschaft. Berlin. Beschaftigungen der BerlinischenJ Gesellschaft 



Naturforschende Freunde, 1775 to 1779. 

 Blaln. (or Bl.) Blainville's Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchy- 



logie, 1825 to 1827. 



Diet. 8c. Nat. Blainville in the Dictionnaire des Sciences 



Naturelles, 1824. 



Bolten. Museum Boltenianum, ed, 2, 1819. Names, not descrip- 

 tions, for figures in Knorr, &c. 

 Bon. Bonanni's Recreatio mentis et oculi, 1684. In Italian, 1688. 

 Bosc, Hist. Coq. (or des Coq.) Bosc's Histoire Naturelle des 



Coquilles, 1801. 

 Boston (or Bost.) Journ. (or J) N. H. at times. Boston_Journal of 



Natural History. 

 Boivd. El. Biv. Bowdich's Elements of Conchology. Bivalves, 



1822. 

 Brande Journal. Journal of Science and the Arts (edit. Brande). 

 Brit. Mar. Con. (or C) British Marine Conchology, 1844. The 



revised Index by Hanley. 

 Brit, (or Br) Mol. Forbes and Hanley 's British Mollusca ; vol. i. 



1848; ii. 1849, 1850; iii. 1850, 1851; iv. 1851, 1852, 1853. 

 Brod. Broderip ; usually in Z. P. or Z. J. or Z. T. 

 Brooke or Brook's Intro. Brookes' Introduction to the Study of 



Conchology, 1815. 

 Brown, or Brown, Brit. Cone. Brown, usually in the next work ; 



also in Wern. Mem. ii. 



Illust. (or II) Conch, (or C) Britain (or B) Brown's 



Illustrations of the Recent Conchology of G. Britain and 

 Ireland, 1844. 



Brug. or Brug. Diet, (or E) Bruguiere 's Dictionnaire des Vers, in 

 the Encyclopedic Methodique, 1789 to 1792. 



Cat. Mem. de la Soc. de Hist. Nat. Bruguiere in the Me- 



moires de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 1792. 



Jour. N. H. Bruguiere in the Journal d'Histoire Naturelle, 



1792. 



Cail. Mag. de t Z. Caillaud in Guerin's Magasin de Zoologie. 



Meroe (or Toy. a Meroe). Caillaud's Voyage a Meroe, vol. iv. 



1824. 



