RUDIMENTS
OF
CONCHOLOGY;
WITH
EXPLANATORY PLATES.
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RUDIMENTS
OF
CONCHOLOGY:
INTENDED AS A
FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE.
WITH
EXPLANATORY PLATES,
AND
REFERENCES TO THE COLLECTION OF SHELLS IN
THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THE GEOGRAPHICAL PRESENT," &c.
LONDON:
DARTON AND HARVEY,
GRACECHURCH STREET.
1837.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY JOSEPH RICKERBY,
SHERBOURN LANE.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Compiler of the following pages has derivedthe greater part of the information contained inthem from "The Conchology of Lamarck," from"Burrows's Elements of Conchology," and otherintroductory treatises.
In the present Edition of this little Workmany alterations and additions have been made,with the hope of rendering it more useful to theyoung student.
ERRATA.
[Note: Corrections were applied.]
Page 3, for Plate 1, read Plate 2.
Page 16, line 8, for squamosa, read, squamosus.
Page 20, for candidas, read candida; and for Plate 3, readPlate 2.
Page 25, for Plates 4 and 5, read Plates 3 and 5; and forgædaropus, read gæderopus.
Page 27, for epiphippium read ephippium.
Page 35, line 12, delete not.
Page 36, line 14, read Plate 2.
Page 42, read Bruguieres; and for Pollicepes, read Pollicipes.