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IT is a circumstance no less to be lamented than won6 dered at, that, in the present enlightened age, when the cultivation of science, and natural history in particular, is so eminently conspicuous, Conchology, or the natural history of shells, should have participated so sparingly of that active spirit of research and investigation, which has been so lavishly bestowed on almost all other branches.

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