. 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. ft eU^iA^ 332 3iS. 352 353 355 â 356 357 ( 16 ) I hiity-eiglit cards, containing various fpecles of Turbo, fami rare Thirreen backs ami other parts of curious Lobfters and Crubs Various fpecles of'Buccina and other genera, fome rare Eight fpecics of VoUit;i, viz. vulpecula, pl
. 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. ft eU^iA^ 332 3iS. 352 353 355 â 356 357 ( 16 ) I hiity-eiglit cards, containing various fpecles of Turbo, fami rare Thirreen backs ami other parts of curious Lobfters and Crubs Various fpecles of'Buccina and other genera, fome rare Eight fpecics of VoUit;i, viz. vulpecula, plicaria, pertuf^, ruffina, and teflu- , i". or f,:lfj-Billi,-^p's Mitre . i U > U ., . ' Two fine Pinnas, viz. nubilis, L. and nebulofa,,A A very fine pair of Conus liicrats, L. or hebraica, from Madagafcar SiiHdiijr Cprala, Corallines, &c. ~ A large ans-i tine fpcclaien of lluccinum Galea, L. or Ttin Tfliell, from SicUy â â , containing ,1 great Variety of Buccina, 6'. (Murex, or Club flielis, many nf ihcm labelled A fine piiir ot liclix ainpullacea, L.âvery rare Two line Murtri tribulus, L or thorny Woodcock, fcesrce rive curious groups of Serpuls, one formed on an oyiler-fliell, another on a large peAen, with oyltcrs, &c. adSicrin^ A very fine fpecimen ot ocul ita, X. from the Mediterranean^ârare Twenty-nine cards, co'ntaining a variety of fhells of the Troehus Genus, fome of them rm'e Cardlum aculeatum, L. fpinofum, o. and two MytiUis elongatus, ^.âont of them folifjcd A pair of large and fine Voluta angulata, S. from \kvi 'Ifland cf Providence^âvery rare . , A fane pair of Vdlnta cymbium, h. a. I. or clouded Melon, from Guhea,ârare Four varieties of a bt^autitul fpccies of Land Helix, from the Jfeji Indies,ârare A-fine Rinna M-uricata, L. with its byfllis, from the Mditen-anean â A pair of fine Cypraea mauritiana, L. in a young tlate, and a fine Cypr. TalpUj or burnt-nioufh Cowry 'Two fine fjje^imens of Bucclnum rufum
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