At 01:35 AM 01/19/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>Does anyone know if Gmelin's 1791 blockbuster (didn't he write anything
>else about molluscs??) has been reprinted?  It would be REALLY nice to
>have a copy of something like this!!
>-Ross.
>

The Ohio State University library has a microfiche copy, which is the only
"reprint" I've ever seen. Gmelin was a chemist and I think the 1791 13th
edition of Systema Naturae was his only molluscan contribution. After the
bashing he recieved from contemporary critics he probably wished he hadn't
even written that one.


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