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... Alder of New- castle , who have kindly sent me specimens for com- parison and figuring . Some apology is , perhaps , due to those who have been expecting the new edition of the work which has been so long advertised : this has partly ...
... Alder of New- castle , who have kindly sent me specimens for com- parison and figuring . Some apology is , perhaps , due to those who have been expecting the new edition of the work which has been so long advertised : this has partly ...
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... Alder ( more especially the latter ) , has left me little else to do , in revising this edition , than to embody their ob- servations . This is the more peculiarly the case , in- asmuch as they all , in a great measure , worked from the ...
... Alder ( more especially the latter ) , has left me little else to do , in revising this edition , than to embody their ob- servations . This is the more peculiarly the case , in- asmuch as they all , in a great measure , worked from the ...
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... Alder and Mr. Jeffreys , who , from a desire to make our Fauna agree with the continental works which they have studied , have been induced to adopt several of the names given by French authors , although long posterior to those applied ...
... Alder and Mr. Jeffreys , who , from a desire to make our Fauna agree with the continental works which they have studied , have been induced to adopt several of the names given by French authors , although long posterior to those applied ...
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... Alder and Mr. Jeffreys , I should have experienced continual diffi- culties in determining whether the name of a species used by German or French authors was the most generally adopted ; and this difficulty would have gone on daily ...
... Alder and Mr. Jeffreys , I should have experienced continual diffi- culties in determining whether the name of a species used by German or French authors was the most generally adopted ; and this difficulty would have gone on daily ...
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... Alder in believing that this species has not yet been found in Britain . Rossmäsler refers to Turton , Man . f . 21. , for this species , but this is a mistake . 8. HELIX sylvatica Drap . t . 6. f . 10 INTRODUCTION .
... Alder in believing that this species has not yet been found in Britain . Rossmäsler refers to Turton , Man . f . 21. , for this species , but this is a mistake . 8. HELIX sylvatica Drap . t . 6. f . 10 INTRODUCTION .
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MANUAL OF THE LAND & FRESH-WAT William 1762-1835 Turton,John Edward 1800-1875 Gray No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
Achatina Alder animal aperture bands Brard Brit British brown Brug Bulimus Carychium minimum Clausilia cloth lettered colour Conch conchologists conical convex Cyclas Cyclostoma Dict Drap Draparnaud edge Edition elongate epiphragm Fauna Férus Férussac foot genus Helix Hist horn-colour hortensis Icon inch in diameter Inhab Jeffreys Jenyns Journ Land and Fresh-water Leach Limax Limnæus Linn longitudinal mantle margin Moll Mollusca Mont Montagu Müller nearly Nilson oblique oblong observes operculum outer lip oval pale Paludina periostraca peristome Pfeiffer Phil Physa Physa fontinalis pillar Pisidium Pisidium amnicum plaits Planorbis Planorbis carinatus Pupa Rossm rounded Shell ovate slightly Snail Sowerby species specimens spiral spire composed striæ striated Sturm Succinea Succinea putris teeth tentacles Testacella thickened thin Trans transparent Turbo Turton umbilicus Unio Valvata Valvata cristata variety ventricose Verm Vertigo Vertigo alpestris Vitrina Vitrina pellucida vols volutions whorls yellowish young shells Zonites Zool