UMBRELLA 



England, and Parasol Chinois in France; Lamarck men- 

 tions two, one from the Isle of France and the Indian 

 ocean, and the other from the Tarentine gulf : the charac- 

 ter by which he distinguishes them appears to us scarcely 

 sufficient, notwithstanding which they may he truly dis- 

 tinct species; we have never seen the latter; nor have 

 we ever heard of any fossil species. 



The specimen we have figured is a small one; its 

 diameter is sometimes from 5 to 6 inches, and the animal 

 is much larger than the shell. 



Since writing the above we have examined the iden- 

 tical specimen which M. De Blainville described, in the 

 British Museum, and we have been so fortunate as to 

 detect the cause of his error, at the same time we have 

 proved the accuracy of his anatomical description; the 

 circumstance by which he has been deceived, has been the 

 displacing the shell from its original situation on the back 

 of the animal, and fixing it to the under side of the foot, 

 where it now adheres, not by the muscular fibres of the 

 foot, but by a kind of cement artificially interposed. 



