Category: Science - Biology
"This box and its contents are the gifts of my cousin Jane," replied Lucy: "she said that I might have her whole collection, if I could find any pleasure in looking at shells without knowing anything about them. But I am not _quite_ ignorant of the subject."
"Perfectly," answered his father; "but I fancy that I can guess how you obtained your information. You have been buying these specimens, and had the names from the shell-vender....
12. CHAPTER XII."So many families of the fourth order, _Cephalopoda_, are found only in a fossil state, and which you will not easily meet with, that I shall not consider it needful to give you...
5. CHAPTER V."Father," said Lucy, the next time they met to pursue their study, "I think we have made ourselves familiar with the various hinges of the bivalve shells, which are becoming fav...
7. CHAPTER VII."The animals of this class are _shell-bearers_ or _carriers_, they remain constantly fixed in their habitations: the body is fastened to the shell by one or two strong muscles:...
4. CHAPTER IV."The hinge of _Mya_, the first on the list, is easily known. The generic characters are, shell gaping at one end, hinge mostly with one thick spreading tooth, not inserted into...
9. CHAPTER IX."As I have observed that you have been very diligent in studying Lamarck since our last lesson," said Mr. Elliot, "I propose to make you acquainted with the variations in the un...
2. CHAPTER II."Conchology," said Mr. Elliot, on resuming the conversation with his children, "is that branch of natural history which comprehends the study of testaceous animals, or animals w...
10. CHAPTER X."The family of the _Neritacea_," said Mr. Elliot, as he renewed his lessons to Charles and Lucy, "are remarkable in their form. Their left-margin is truncated, without any appea...
1. CHAPTER I."This box and its contents are the gifts of my cousin Jane," replied Lucy: "she said that I might have her whole collection, if I could find any pleasure in looking at shells wi...
3. CHAPTER III."As you both assure me," said Mr. Elliot, "that you do not fail to make yourselves familiar with the _nomenclature_, or terms, used in conchology, I shall proceed this morning t...
8. CHAPTER VIII."In the first genus we find the great _Tridacna gigas_, the largest and heaviest shell yet known. It sometimes weighs five hundred pounds. The hinge has two teeth, the lunula is...
6. CHAPTER VI."Lucy and I have been collecting a variety of species," said Charles to his father, "since our last lesson in conchology. We have also seen several large collections of shells,...