 | Linnean Society of London - Botany - 1825 - 666 pages
...particularly in their young state, show great sagacity and ingenuity by covering themselves with an epidermis adapted to the different situations in which they...covered, it is almost impossible for any other than a conch ological eye to detect them. If its abode be upon the trunk of a tree covered with Lichens, then... | |
 | John Gwyn Jeffreys - Mollusks - 1862 - 498 pages
...particularly in their young state, show great sagacity and ingenuity by covering themselves with an epidermis adapted to the different situations in which they...impossible for any other than a conchological eye to detect them. If its abode be upon the trunk of a tree covered with Lichens, then is the epidermis so... | |
 | James Edmund Harting - Mollusks - 1875 - 198 pages
...particularly in their young state, show great sagacity and ingenuity, by covering themselves with an epidermis adapted to the different situations in which they...impossible for any other than a conchological eye to detect them. If its abode be upon a tree covered with lichens, then is the epidermis so constructed... | |
 | English periodicals - 1878 - 542 pages
...Revett Sheppard, in a paper in the ' Transactions of the Linnean Society,' says : — " These snails, particularly in their young state, show great sagacity...conchological eye to discover them. If its abode be on the trunk of a tree covered with lichen, then is the epidermis so constructed as to cause the shell... | |
 | Henry Housman - Collectors and collecting - 1881 - 292 pages
...particularly in their young state, show great sagacity and ingenuity by covering themselves with an epidermis adapted to the different situations in which they...impossible for any other than a conchological eye to detect them. If its abode be upon the trunk of a tree covered with Lichens, then is the epidermis so... | |
 | English periodicals - 1878 - 492 pages
...Transactions of the Linnean Society,' says : — " These snails, particularly in their young stale, show great sagacity and ingenuity by covering themselves...conchological eye to discover them. If its abode be on the trunk of a tree covered with lichen, then is the epidermis so constructed as to cause the shell... | |
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These snails, particularly in their young state, show great sagacity and ingenuity by covering themselves with a coat adapted to the different situations in which they are found, and when so covered it is almost impossible for any other than a conchological... 