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this species, as his work was published in 1803, and 
Draparnaud’s in 1805. The English conchologists, 
not paying attention to this fact, have very generally 
committed an injustice to their countryman, in favour 
of a foreigner, in a manner of which few foreign 
naturalists would be guilty. Indeed, few of them 
have been willing to do sufficient justice to Montagu’s 
great merit ; for he was almost the first zoologist in 
modern times who attempted to pay any attention to 
the animals inhabiting shells ; and we should recollect 
that, during the whole period he was writing, he was 
shut out by the war from any communication with 
our Continental brethren, and was solely dependent 
on his own energies. 
Body of animal and mouth of shell compressed^ 
longer than broad, from back to front than from 
side to side, that is to say, in the direction of the 
longitudinal axis of the shelL (Bulimina.) 
5. SucciNEA Drap. (Amber Snail.) 
The animal with a large gelatinous foot, short inflated 
tentacles, and an oblong spiral body, lying on 
the upper part of the foot ; body covered with 
an oval-oblong thin shell, with a short conical 
spire, and rapidly enlarging whorls, ending in a 
large longitudinal oblique mouth, with the 
peristome disunited behind ; pillar smooth, and 
with an imperforated axis. 
This genus is easily known from Helix and Zonites 
by the oblong shape ; and from Limnceus, with which 
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