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Excerpt from An Index to the Museum Boltenianum The great diversity of the collection caused the owner to select his own system of classification, and he bestowed upon his speci mens, as the list will show, Latin and German names, but, al though these were fortunately and well chosen, many of them would nevertheless remain entirely unknown to foreigners. On account of my love for natural history I accepted the labor and have added the Latin names according to the 13th edition of Gmelin's Linnaean System, as well as many references to figures of the specimens. In many instances this, had to be left undone because no figures were to be found or these were unsatisfactory. Of univalves there are almost and of the two and many shelled organisms, about On account of so large a mass of material I h0pe to be forgiven because m occasional instances the references were not put forth as they really should have been. It would be a pity if so rich and select a collection should meet the fate of many a collection, namely, to be sold piecemeal. The family, therefore, wishes very much to secure a single pur chaser to whom they would sell the collection for a reasonable consideration, and it asks that any such purchaser make himself known without delay. It remains to be mentioned that the shells have been uniformly subjected to a thorough cleaning by skilled hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.