CHRONOLOGICAL LIST 



OF 



WRITERS ON SHELLS 



For an historical account of the under-mentioned Writers, see a 

 most excellent Paper in the Seventh Volume of the Linnean Transac- 

 tions, by William George Maton, M. D. ; and the Rev. Thomas 

 Rackett, M.A. 



Aristotle, Tlspi Zacov Iroptag ro A. #e<£>. 5". 



Pliny, Naturalis Historiae Lib. 9. 



jiElian, Tlzqi Zuw ihoTyros. I. iy. 



Vincentius, Speculum Naturale, 1473. fol. 



Albertus Magnus, de Animalibus, &c. 1478. fol. 



Adam Lonicerus, Historiae Naturalis Opus Novum. 1551, fol. et 



torn. 2. 1555. fol. 

 Belon, De Aquatilibus. 1553. 8vo. 



Rondeletius, Universa Aquatilium Historia. 1544 — 55. fol. 

 Matthiolus, Comment, in sex Lib. Dioscoridis. 1565. fol. 

 Gesner, De Piscium et Aquatilium Animantium Historia Lib. 4. 



1558. fol. 

 Linocier, Histoire des Poissons. 1584. 12mo. 

 Imperato, Dell' Historia Naturale Lib. 28. 1599- fol. 

 Aldrovandus, De Mollibus Crustaceis, Testaceis, et Zobphytis. 



1606. fol. 

 Fabius Columna, Aquatilium et Terrestrium aliquot Animalium, 



&c. 1616. et 1675. 4to. 

 Basil Besler, Fasciculus Rariorum, &c. 1616. fol. 



