. 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. ( '42 ). & 5147 3148 3149 o^.-^ 3158 3'53 3154 3156 Nine curioiLS Bivalves, viz. Venus cxoleta, two varieties of Proftrata, L. Scripta^ 6'.. and two others; Donax fcortum, L. and two more Th ee pair of Biiccinn, viz. Calcaratum, Infignituin,, and'Morbofum, ;—aU rare A
. 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. ( '42 ). & 5147 3148 3149 o^.-^ 3158 3'53 3154 3156 Nine curioiLS Bivalves, viz. Venus cxoleta, two varieties of Proftrata, L. Scripta^ 6'.. and two others; Donax fcortum, L. and two more Th ee pair of Biiccinn, viz. Calcaratum, Infignituin,, and'Morbofum, ;—aU rare A fine pair of Voluta muiicata, 5. oric vjith the epidermh on, Lljlcr^ 810. 19, from the W, Indies—rare A pair of fine cloudeil fpccimens of Helix perverfa, L. from Chinas and another curious and rare terreftiial Snail Five curious fpetiniens of Tellina, viz. Lingua fells,. L. two varieties of Au- lica, from China, Papyracea, from Coromamkl, sind Compta, 5. from - gafcar Two large and fine varieties of Conus literatus, L. viz. the great yellow banded Alphabet, with it's epidermis on, from Ota/jciie,.And the Hebraica with fmall foots, fr-om Ma, Three varieties of three fpecies of Univalves, (hewing the different ftages of growth, viz. Cyprjsa exanthema,. Sirorabus pugilis, and the pink-clouded. Strombus of Guinea Seven cards, containing various fpecies of Dentalium, viz. Elephantinum, Den- talis, Corneum, Entalis, L. &c. Two large fpecimens of Valuta Pyrum, L. from Chinit, one of them with a fine mouth, rare Two of a fcarce variety of Conus capitaneus, var, c. S. Knorr. II. 6. 3. and a large and beautiful variety of Voluta ollva, L. Seha III. 3. C. A fpecimen of a curious dwarf variety of Madrepora Damaeeornis, L. or Deer's- horn Coral, and Madrepora fragilis, a very rare unHefcrihtdffeciesy having ifs Jiellular tubes conneSled by a fragile ivhite fapyraceus coralline ntalter, both fro HI- the Ea_^ Indies A very large and fine fpecimen of Murex Colus, L.
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