CONCHOLOGY. 



period : It is the Anomia sanguinea of Dr. Solanders MSS. and was 

 designated under that name in the Museum of the Dutchess of 

 Portland : it appeared under the same appellation in the catalogue of 

 that museum, published in 1786: in the Calonnian Museum and 

 Catalogue, printed in the year 1795 ; it stood under that name also 

 in the Museum of Sir Ashton Lever, and it appeared under the same 

 denomination in the sale catalogue of that museum, published in the 

 year 1806. Under all these circumstances it may be presumed the 

 name must have obtained no small publicity, and we need scarcely 

 add that the example of these authorities vi^ere followed in the Cabi- 

 nets of english collectors generally, that happened to be in possession 

 of the shell, among which was that of Mr. Cracherode, which was 

 subsequently deposited in the British Museum. And lastly, it should 

 be mentioned that it occurs under the same name in the Testaceological 

 Manual of Mr. Dillwyn. Nothing therefore can be more certain than 

 that the french writers are not correct in their opinion when they 

 imagine that the shell had been so named in the first instance by 

 Dr. Leach ; and it is no less certain that the credit of having first 

 noticed the species is due to Dr. Solander, he described it more than 

 forty years ago: his words as they stand in his manuscripts are, 

 "Anomia SAIS! guinea ohovato, longitudinaliter sulcata, triloba; 

 sinu prof undo nate producta latere angulata Jhramen amhiente.*^ 

 Mr. Dillwyn has well expressed the character of this shell in his 

 description of Anomia Sanguinea, but has by some oversight misquoted 

 this passage of Dr. Solander's manuscripts ; and by that means has 

 confounded the Anomia Sanguinea of Dr. Solander, with his Anomia 

 Cruenta ; this will be more fully shewn hereafter. 



Upon this subject we have only lastly to observe that although 

 Lamarck has deemed it requisite to give a specific character of this 



