# Beautiful shells

Author: Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1812?-1881

Genre: Category: Science - Biology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74207

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Beautiful+shells+Adams&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Dr. Johnson gives us no less than eight different meanings for the word SHELL. First, he calls it ‘The hard covering of anything; the external crust.’ Second, ‘The covering of a testaceous or crustaceous animal.’ And here we may stop, for this is just the signification which has to do with our subject; so let us turn the sentence inside out, and see what we can make of it. We all know what a covering is—an outer coat, a case, a protection from injury, a husk, a crust, a—in short, a shell,—_scyll_ or _scell_, as our Saxon forefathers called it; _schale_, as the Germans now term it. No Latin nor Greek here, but the good old Saxon tongue, somewhat rough and rugged, perhaps, but stout and stu...

## Chapters

- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/beautiful-shells-74207/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/beautiful-shells-74207/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/beautiful-shells-74207/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/beautiful-shells-74207/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/beautiful-shells-74207/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/beautiful-shells-74207/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/beautiful-shells-74207/chapters/7/index.md)