Thirty-seventh Day's Sale 



TUESDAY THE 6th of JUNE, 1786. 



CURIOUS SHELLS, CORALS, &c, 



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3940 beautiful poliflied fpecimens of agatized and jafperized wood, one of them 

 *^ with a knot in it, rare 



3941 Solen complaiiatus, S, an undefcribed fpecies, uniqhe, the country un- 



known. 



394^ Cancer Scrupofus, ? L. a very fuigular and extremely rare Species, the country 

 unknown 



5943 Two fine fpecimens of the- Conus Rubiginofus, 5. extremelj fcarce, the native 

 place unknov/n 



3944 A moft curious and beautiful variety of Strombus MiTlepeda, L= having a fine 



purple mouth, from Caromandcl 



3945 Another fpecimen of the fame, very rich in colour, from the- fame place.— 



N. B. Thc/e are the o?ity two fpecimens known, 



3946 A very curious Foilil. Patella, much refembling a Bivalve, filled with flint, 



found in the Chalk Clitfs between Deal and Dover, cxircmdy Jlarce 



3947 A fine fpecimen of Area Labiata, S. or valved Ark, called by the French, 



Coquelochon de Moine, D'avila, Vol. 1. pi. 18. its country unknown 

 5948"' A largeand fiine Mytilus Plicaius, S. a very rare frefti water (hell, -with a pearly 

 infide, from China- 



3949 The Jefuit's Gap' Afterias, fvom the EaJI- Indies, extremely fcarce 



3950 Voluta jEthiopica, L. of extraordinary magnitude, being 15 inches long, from 



Amhoyna, rare 



3951 A fine fpecimen of Gorgonia Flammea, or Fiery Red Gorgon, from the Cape 



of Good Hope, very rare. — KUis Zoopb. tab, 1 1 . 

 39^2 A large and fine fpecimen of an undefcribed fpecies of Strombus, from whence • 

 U-nknown, uni^fue 



3953 A glazed frame, containing- a fpecimen of a curious fpecies of Encrinus, with 

 feathered Tentacula, and a . long angulated Hem, befet with many clafj^eri, 

 filhed up off'the ifland of Barbadoes. Of this extremely rare animal, only 

 three fpecimens are known ; th^e firft is defcribcd in the Memoirs of the 

 Atadcmy of Sciences at Paris, publlflied in 1761, for the year 17^5. An 

 account, with a figure of the fecond, is given by Mr. Ellis, in the Phibfo" 

 phical Tranfadions, Vol. 53, for the year 1761, ^nd which is now in t!,e 

 Hunterian Mafeum. This fpecimen makes the third, which, though not 

 complete enough to give an idea of the whole animal, is more perfcd thaa 

 the other two. It is called by IMr. Ellis, En-.rinus capite fidlato ramofo- 

 dicbotomoy f ipitc pentageno eqiffctiforTui 



