INDEX MUSEUM BOLTENIANUM 3 



titled the Conchylien Cabinet by Martini and Chemnitz. If these 

 authors had adopted the Linnaean system of nomenclature as did 

 their friend and contemporary Lorenz Spengler, an enormous 

 amount of trouble would have been saved those who came after 

 them. However, in 1840 Dr. Ludwig Pfeiffer published a criti- 

 cal register of the species figured in the Conchylien Cabinet, 2 in 

 which he supplied the binary names of Linnaeus, Gmelin, Lamarck 

 and others applicable to the species figured in the Cabinet. Un- 

 fortunately, PfeifTer was not at that time acquainted with Bolten's 

 work and Bolten's names, which precede those of Lamarck in 

 many cases, are not referred to. 



Bolten's names are binomial in the Linnaean sense, the genera 

 have frequently brief diagnostic characters in Latin with usually 

 a German translation. His specific names, by the pious care of his 

 friend Roeding, are accompanied by references to Gmelin's Sys- 

 tema and to figures in the Conchylien Cabinet and elsewhere, in 

 nearly all cases. When Roeding could find no figures correspond- 

 ing to a shell the name remains " nude " and of course invalid. 

 Still for the sake of completeness these names, properly discrimi- 

 nated from the others by a dagger mark (t ), are included in the 

 index now oflered. But the vast majority of Bolten's names cor- 

 respond to the requirements of the International code of Nomen- 

 clature and are unquestionably valid. Synonyms are here indi- 

 cated by an asterisk. When no authority is cited, the name is of 

 Bolten. The serial species-number under each of Bolten's genera 

 is enclosed in parentheses, followed by the page number of the 

 edition of 1798. There are about 30 missing serial numbers 

 omitted by a printer's error in the original and 46 serial numbers 

 are duplicated by an analogous error. I have also included from 

 Pf eiffer's register his names for all the species figured in the Con- 

 chylien Cabinet and cited by Roeding. These names, with the 

 author of each properly indicated are included on the assumption 

 that Pfeifler's identifications are to be relied on. A list of the 

 abbreviations used is given at the end of this introduction. 



In order that all the facts should be at the disposition of those 

 who may consult this index, a translation follows by Mrs. Marian 

 Baker, instructor in Latin at the Central High School of Wash- 



2 Kritisches Register zu iMartini und Chemnitz's systematischem Konchy- 

 lien-Kabinet, Kassel, Th. Fischer, 1840, pp. viii, 112, 8°. 



