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Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of Conchology: Including Observations on the Linnaean Genera, and on the Arrangement of M. Lamarck; A Glossary, and a Table of English Names; Illustrated With Coloured Plates
Many persons who spend a part of their time at the sea coast every year, and collect a few shells, attracted frequently in the first instance by the beauty of the objects, or mere curiosity, afterwards become desirous of some information re specting them, which is not readily procured. For such per sons an introductory book is much wanted. In the year 1776 Da Costa published his Elements of Conchology, which is not so much an introduction to the science in general, as an attempt to introduce a new system of his own in some respects different from that of Linnaeus, though founded principally on the same cha racters (see Transactions of the Linnaean Society, vol. 7. P.
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