Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Popular Conchology, or the Shell Cabinet Arranged According to the Modern System: With a Detailed Account of the Animals and a Complete Descriptive List of the Families and Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells
The study of Conchology having made considerable advances within the last few years, the Author takes advantage of a second edition being required, to introduce a more modern arrangement, founded on the Molluscs themselves, instead of on their habitation. Beyond a doubt this is the most natural, and consequently the most scxentifie method of classifying the sub ject, the shells being in fact of little comparative importance, when the animals which construct them are philosophically considered; as rely serve the purpose of concealment, or afford protec he more delicate organs of the Mollusc. The labours oi' Cuv'ier, Blainville, Owen, Forbes, Philippi, and many others in the field of Malacology, have rendered even those shelly' habitations much more interesting objects, than when they were looked upon only as pretty specimens for the cabinet; and in connection with their very curiously formed inhabitants, they present a, study at once pleasing and wonder ful, from their perfect mutual adaptation. The satisfaction derived from the possession of a cabinet of shells, cannot fail to be greatly heightened by their being scientifically arranged, and the pleasure they afford is infinitely increased, when a knowledge of the wonderfully constituted inhabitant is added to that of its beautiful habitation.
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