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ON THE PINNA INGENS. 



Pinna ingens of the " Linnean Transactions," arc 

 one and the same species of shell. 



It will, perhaps, be agreeable to conchological 

 readers, to see Dr Walker's account of this shell, as 

 transcribed from hisMSS. Catalogue raisonnee, page 

 665. in his own handwriting : " No. 2268. Pinna 

 " borealis.—lt was brought up on a fishing-hook 

 ** with the animal alive in it, thirty miles E. N. E. 

 " of Zetland. It is different, I think, from all the 

 " Linnean species, and different also from all those 

 " figured by Gualtieri, Seba, and D'Argenville, 

 " It is the same with the feaskand (its Gaelic 

 " name) I found in Barra." 



