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Excerpt from The Land and Freshwater Mollusks: Indigenous to or Naturalized in the British Isles
With the hope of making the work useful to collectors of shells, as well as to observers of the external characters and habits-of the mollusk, figures are given of the shell of each species (the upper one when in outline representing the natural size), engraved from drawings on wood by Mr. G. B. Sowerby; and a vignette of a living animal of each genus, drawn and engraved in most instances from nature by Mr. O. Jewitt. Three years have been devoted to collecting living specimens. Where these could not be obtained or delineated, recourse has been had to some figures of M. Moquin-tandon, and to some unpublished drawings obligingly placed at my disposal by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
