In this comprehensive index, Joachim Friedrich Bolten and William Healey Dall catalog the specimens and objects that comprise the Museum Boltenianum. This museum was founded by Bolten in the late 18th century and contains a vast collection of specimens from around the world. This index is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the natural sciences. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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.

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