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VIIL A Catalogue of Shells, i^c. gathered 
at the Ifland of Afcencion, by Mr. James 
Cuninghame Chimrgeon^ rvith what Plants 
he there Gbfer^ed Communicated to Mr. 
James Petiver Apothecary^ and Fellow of 
the Royal Society, 
I Intend to range the following S^^/Zi, according to 
the accurate Method of ihdxmofi Sagacious Natn- 
ralifl and Expert Phyfitian Dr. Martyn Lifter^ in his 
Elaborate and curious Hifloria five Methodus Conchyli* 
orum^ and ftiall therefore begin with, 
I. Buccimm parvum breve afperum. 
This comes next of Kin to that which Dr, Lifter 
kept alive in Gardenz^hoXt Summer or mQtQ,\\\\id\ 
was brought him from Jamacta, by that hdulirious 
Promoter of Natural knowledge Dr, Hans Sloan, and 
very nearly Relembles, if not the fame, as Dt. Lifter 
himfelf aflerts, with that variety which he has Figured 
in his excellent Hiftoria C one hylior urn Lib. i. below li^. nm. 
Num. zS. without a name, it being lefs, the Nodes ^?^^^^ 
ftarper, and not Umbilicated. -^-^ ^ 
%. Peiten ex ruhro alhque fafdatus, nod is inflaiu ^ 
ftriatus. an P. ruher fir its circiter i o nodofis^ five huU 
lot is & inequalihus donatm^ Lift. Hift. Comb, 1. 3. i?/?H.Conch^ 
Fig. 24. /i^. 3. 
3. Oftrea rupejlris Jukata^ capitecavo. 
S^ondiylviS fere ruber murkatus Lift. H, C.L}. 4, 
Fig. 40. 
The(e are alfb found on the Barhadves Shore, yet 
rarely in Pairs and entire, the only one I have yet ob« 
ferved^ is in the incomparable Mufeum of that moft 
