An Introduction to Conchology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous AnimalsJ. Van Voorst, 1850 - 614 páginas |
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... present volumes are a second edition , and we should not have given them so extended a notice had they not appeared in an almost entirely new form . The work now constitutes one of Van Voorst's beautiful Series illustrative of British ...
... present volumes are a second edition , and we should not have given them so extended a notice had they not appeared in an almost entirely new form . The work now constitutes one of Van Voorst's beautiful Series illustrative of British ...
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... present the Conchologist with a view of the economical , physiological , and systematical Relations of Molluscous Animals to each other , and to other created beings . I am not aware of any other Introduction , in the English language ...
... present the Conchologist with a view of the economical , physiological , and systematical Relations of Molluscous Animals to each other , and to other created beings . I am not aware of any other Introduction , in the English language ...
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... present fixed and ordered magnificence . The Conchologist is an indispensable ally to the geologist , to satisfy whose demands he has entered on inquiries of the nicest nature , requiring a delicacy of obser- vation , and a tact in ...
... present fixed and ordered magnificence . The Conchologist is an indispensable ally to the geologist , to satisfy whose demands he has entered on inquiries of the nicest nature , requiring a delicacy of obser- vation , and a tact in ...
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... present we reject as apocryphal even this moderated edition : but Cuvier admits , that in tropical seas it does occasionally happen that certain cephalopods will entwine their arms round the legs of swim- mers , and , by impeding their ...
... present we reject as apocryphal even this moderated edition : but Cuvier admits , that in tropical seas it does occasionally happen that certain cephalopods will entwine their arms round the legs of swim- mers , and , by impeding their ...
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... present state of things , have been lost and exterminated , while others their contem- poraries survive to play their part among living entities . You must therefore receive with many limitations the lan- guage of some writers , who ...
... present state of things , have been lost and exterminated , while others their contem- poraries survive to play their part among living entities . You must therefore receive with many limitations the lan- guage of some writers , who ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adductor muscle Anat animal aperture apex Aplysia appears Ascidia attached bivalves Blainville body Brachiopods branchiæ branchial branchial cavity Buccinum calcareous canal cavity Cephalopods character coat colour Conchology covered Cuvier deposited distinct dorsal edge eggs external families Ferussac fleshy fluid foot furnished Gasteropods genera genus Helix Heteropods hinge Hist horny inner internal Journ Lamarck laminæ latter layer less ligament Linnæus Lister lobes manner mantle margin membranous Milne-Edwards Mollusca mollusks mouth multivalve muscular mussels nacred naked natural naturalist Nautilus nucleus Nudibranches observed opercula operculum organs orifice outer oysters Patella pearls Pecten peculiar periostracum Phil Pholas placed plates posterior Pteropods remarkable respiration respiratory rocks says shell side siphon snail sometimes species specimens spiral spire structure substance surface tentacula Teredo Testacea testaceous thin tion Trans transverse tribes tube Tunicata univalves valves vessels Zool
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Página 79 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Página 128 - Or, as the snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there all smother'd up in shade doth sit, Long after fearing to creep forth again ; So, at his bloody view, her eyes are fled Into the deep dark cabins of her head...
Página 79 - I seized the vermin, home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread. Slow crawl'd the snail, and, if I right can spell In the soft ashes mark'da curious L; Oh, may this wondrous omen lucky prove! For L is found in Lubberkin and Love. ' With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.
Página 79 - But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Página 48 - ... looked with disgust on the snails, they retained their awe for each other ; so that each, conceiving the symptoms of internal revolt peculiar to himself, began with infinite exertion to swallow, in very small quantities, the mess which he internally loathed. Dr Black, at length, " showed the white feather," but in a very delicate manner, as if to sound the opinion of his messmate : —
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