59° The Museum Gazette 



Group V. 



(1) La Duchesse de Guise. 1 531-1607. Wife of Francis de 

 Lorraine. 



(2) Diane de Poitiers. 1499-1566 (maitresse de Henri II.). 



(3) Diane de Angouleme. 1 538-1619. Daughter of Henri II. and 

 Diane de Poitiers. 



(4) Le Due de Joyeuse, Statesman (Henri III.). 



(5) Gabrielle d'Estrees. 1 571-1 599. (Maitresse de Henri IV.). 



(6) Princesse de Conde, wife of Louis, Prince de Conde. 



Group VI. 



(1) Marguerite d' Angouleme, Queen of Navarre. 1492-1549. Sister 

 of Francis I. 



(2) Ditto (older). 



(3) Jeanne d'Albret, daughter of Marguerite d'Angouleme. 1528- 

 1572. Mother of Henri IV. 



(4) Antoine de Bourbon, husband of Jeanne d'Albret. King of 

 Navarre. 15 18-1562. 



(5) Henri IV. of France and Navarre. 1553-1610. 



(6) Marguerite de France. 1 553-161 5. First wife of Henri IV. or 

 Valois. 



The following are not grouped: 1. M. de Lautrect. 2. Md. de 

 Simier. 3. Elizabeth Duval ? 4. Philippe Strozzi. 5. Ant. Caron- 

 Pintre, 1592. 6. Pierre Quefnel, 1574. 7. Md. de Sauve (?) 8. 

 Agnes Sorel. 9. M. de Quelus. 10. M. de Mogeron. 11. M. de 

 Dunes (?) dii d'Entragues, 1576. 12. M. de St. Megrin. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



[These descriptions are adapted for Museum Labels, and they 

 may be had separately.'] 



OPERCULA. 



The soft-bodied animals (Mollusca) which have single and 

 usually spiral shells, such as snails, whelks, &c, are able to 

 withdraw their bodies into their shells< Firmly embedded in 

 that part of the body (the foot) which is the last to pass into 

 the shell, there is in many species a plate, sometimes of horny 

 substance, but more usually of hard shell, which closes the 

 opening as a sort of door, or rather flattened plug. It is a 



