. 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. 5445' Twenty-five cards of fine Univalves, fame of thm rare, among which' are Mure» rana, Helix haliotoidca, Buccimim hamailoina, L.' maculofum, tenerum^ â infignitum, and Voluta raslaca, S. Sec. A curigus variety of Mytilas hirundo, L. or great Swallow-fliell, from Chinay^ t
. 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. 5445' Twenty-five cards of fine Univalves, fame of thm rare, among which' are Mure» rana, Helix haliotoidca, Buccimim hamailoina, L.' maculofum, tenerum^ â infignitum, and Voluta raslaca, S. Sec. A curigus variety of Mytilas hirundo, L. or great Swallow-fliell, from Chinay^ trcry rare A mofl rare and curious variety of Marex C<j1u3, L. -white, ivitb large hiols^ an 01 iental JJicU. Martyn, J-'oUYV. ji'f, IJ43. The upper valve of a very rare and curious variety of Spondylus Gaederopus^.. Z,. of the colour of the brighteft poliflied red Coral, fuppofed from Guinea.^ A pair of curious bidtntated, and two oiher uodefcribcd terreftrial Helices^. very rare ~ A very uncommon variety of Echinus efculentu^"^, L. hraving great part of its. curious fcarlet and white fpines on, from the KaJl'IncUes A fine Area tortuofa, L. or twifled Ark, from Chinaâvery rare Twenty fine Univalves of diiferent genera, among which are Gonus protheus^.' cntenatus, (a variety of protheus);. Buccinum cithara, S. Harpa, pomum;.. Bulla lignaria^ two varieties of anus, two young of Strombus chira- gra, L. &G. 34^5 A very large and fine foffil Madrepora Ficus, or Fig Coral, the pores filled flint, from a chalk-pit in Buckingham/hire'-âvery fcarce 3454 A very fine fpecimen of Fholas coftatus, L. or tiled Pholas, from South-Carolina^ very rare 3455 A very fine fpecimen of Echinus lacunofus of Pennant, xvith its fpities complete^.. from Schevcningen, inclofed in a fmallglafs cafe 3456 A very beautiful variety of Murex Saxatilis, i. or Endive Shell, white, with, black fpines, from Chinaârare. Regenfus. tab. ^. fig- 6. 3457 A very large and fine Conus obefus
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