COXCHOLOGICAL AUTHORS. 
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papers on the British Testacea; especially the excellent 
observations on the hinges of bivalve shells, in the sixth 
volume, by Mr. Wood. Maton and Rackett’s Descriptive 
Catalogue, in the eghth volume, is subsequently men¬ 
tioned. 
Lister. Huddesford's edition of Lister’s Historia Con- 
diyliorum. Folio, 1/70. 
Tiie basis and ancient foundation of all good Conchology. 
This admirable volume contains one thousand and fifty-five 
plates, besides twenty-one of anatomical figures, all drawn 
from original specimens by his two daughters, Susanna and 
Anna. Considering the state of natural science at the time 
this work was first issued, one hundred and thirty-three 
years since, it is impassible to contemplate this stupendous 
cfibrt of genius and industry, without admiration at the 
grandeur of the design, and the correctness of its execution. 
Some of the plates, especially the anatomical ones, are of 
matchless excellence. And it is gratifying to recollect, that 
the original drawings are preserved among the archives of 
the University of Oxford. His Historia Animalium Anglkc, 
and its appendix, are now of rare occurrence. 
Maton and Rackett. A descriptive Catalogue of the Bri¬ 
tish Testacea, by \V. G. Maton, M.D.V. P. L. S. See. and 
the Rev. Thomas Rackett, M.A, F. L. S. &c. in the eighth 
volume of the Linnean Transactions j with six colored 
plates. 
A transcription of the words of Linnd, with an attempt 
at a translation of the words of Montagu. Of a production 
which for ten years has been considered as possessing the 
rare value of decisive authority, we will adventure to exa¬ 
mine the merits, as it may prevent the frequent repetition 
of our own remarks, and exhibit a memorable caution to 
future writers against too much dependence upon confident 
pretensions. 
It is probable that the whole art of typography cannot 
produce so gross a mass of errors. This is the more re¬ 
markable, as their paper was subjected to the usual exami¬ 
nation of a committee of science, and was publicly read be¬ 
fore the Society by the principal author himself. The list of 
Corrigenda also, though unusually voluminous,and bearing 
evident marks of an anxious amendment of their work in 
its 
