. 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. TmRTV-FiFTH Day's Sale, ii-VRIDAY THE 2d OF JUNE, I'jU. SHELLS, CORALS, P E T R 1 F J CT10 N S,. 3733 3734 TWENTY FIVE Univalves of different genera, among which are Buccl- num hasmailoma, L. morbofum, 5. Conus tulipa, a fcarcc variety of Ca- pitaneus, L. Clavus, Monile, or ba
. 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. TmRTV-FiFTH Day's Sale, ii-VRIDAY THE 2d OF JUNE, I'jU. SHELLS, CORALS, P E T R 1 F J CT10 N S,. 3733 3734 TWENTY FIVE Univalves of different genera, among which are Buccl- num hasmailoma, L. morbofum, 5. Conus tulipa, a fcarcc variety of Ca- pitaneus, L. Clavus, Monile, or baftarJ Flambeaux, S. Sec. Eighteen cards of needle Buccina, including Dimidiatum, duplicatum, hefli- cum, L. Rhinoceros, luridum, punftatum, gazella, S, &c. Fifteen fineiUnivalvcs, among which are Buccinum Pandura, crifpatum, macu^ lofum, var b. S. Bulla lignaria, Murex Babylonius, £.Conus t^niatus, S. &c, A large and fine fpecimen of the great thorny Woodceck, (a variety of INIurex -tribulus with the beak accidentally curved. Martyn, vol. III. 1052 Thirty-two cards, containing a great variety of Univalves, chiefly of the Murex and Buccinum genera, mojl of them lahellcd The upper valve of an Oftrea corufca, with a cUifter of large Balanus tintinna- bulum, naturally affixed to it, from Anamahoa, on the Coaft of Guinea Onevalve of a large Mytilus Margaritifera, L. with a duller of eight fine large Pearls naturally formed within it, from China—very curious and rure A very fine fpecimen of Madrepora foliofa^ Ellis Zooph. tab, 52. from the Eaji I/ulies—ve^y rare Two very fine fpecies of Strcinbus, each very large of their kind, viz. Lentigi- rofus, from China, and the purple mouthed variety of I'ugilis, L. from Florida—both rare Thirteen pair of beautiful lliells of the Nerita genus, among which are fevcral varieties of Canrena, polita, chama;leon, peloronta, L. &c. fame of them rare A large and fine fpecimen of Madrepora Undata, Ellis Zooph. pi, 40. very rare, fro
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