. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... Sundays, and the 5th of June ... excepted ... Zoological specimens; Art objects; Mollusks. z;7j Two very larc fpecles of Mytiluf, viz. Brunneu3, and omatus, 5. or peuciledl S. ^ Blufclc, the lafl: from China / 2:76 A pair of large aiid fine Trocluis Solaris, L. or Sun Shell, from *jamaica â 2277 Various fpecies of frefl;-water foffii Shells, in a calcarious Stone, f
. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... Sundays, and the 5th of June ... excepted ... Zoological specimens; Art objects; Mollusks. z;7j Two very larc fpecles of Mytiluf, viz. Brunneu3, and omatus, 5. or peuciledl S. ^ Blufclc, the lafl: from China / 2:76 A pair of large aiid fine Trocluis Solaris, L. or Sun Shell, from *jamaica â 2277 Various fpecies of frefl;-water foffii Shells, in a calcarious Stone, from the Jfle J . - ^ of ny,t 3:78 A large and fine Turbo farmaticus, L. or Orange Tui-bo {Regenf. tah. 7.) â â ^ with it's curious granulated Operculum, from the Cape of Good Hopeârare 2279 A large red variety of Spoiidylus Gaideropus, L, with 2 of Charma gryphoides (a purple and a yellow) adhering to it, from Martinique (/z<y S23i Two curious flinty Coralloids-called the Fig, very rare ââ J- ^ 22S2 Cardium fpinofuin, TcUina faufta, ^j. Venus maculata, 2 varieties ofMeretrix, and a Spcndylus Gsedcropus, âall fine yi'Z^^â,_,,,,,^^^^^,j_^ ^ 22S3 A fingle ll:ar of Madrepora angulofa, Zoo//^. 3,4. and 2 curious Millc- ^ C ^ pores, one of them ihid. tah* 26, fig. i. all rare 2284 Nine fine Univalves, among which are a pair of Bucclnum decufTatum,-2 Vo- ^ ⢠lujta pUcaria, L. Murex plicatusj cr plicated Murex, from FaMand''5 Iflandst " ' undefcrihcd. Favame, tab. 79, /. and 3 other rare fliells A large and beautiful white Madra, from Guinea^ undefcrihcd -and rare , (P O 2286 Two ofTrochus pcrfpe^tivus from Cljina, a Solaris If. Indies; Murex aruanus and pcrverfus, or right and left-handed Figs, from North-Jmerica, z Bulla ampalhicea, Guinea, and a pair of a fcarce variety of Murex canaliculatus, ^ J J L. from Firginia, L,ifi. 877. I. ~ ^''^â¢'^^yy^'^^ i^S? Two very fine fpecimens of Lepas tintinnabulum, with their opercula, ad- hering, together, hoi\
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