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Excerpt from American Marine Conchology: Or Descriptions and Coloured Figures of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast of North America
It is proposed, however, to limit the present undertaking to the Marine Shells inhabiting the coast of North America; inasmuch as several able naturalists, especially Messrs. Say and Lea, are now occupied with our fresh water and land shells, the results of whose labours will doubtless supply all that may be requisite in these departments.
The North American sea shells have received more or less attention from nearly all the systematic writers on Conchology: many of the species were familiar to Lin naeus others were first noticed by Lamarck and Mr. Say, with his usual industry, has described a considera ble number. The periodical publications of this country and of Europe contain various additional notices, and the interests of science seem now to require, that all these scattered details should be embodied in a system atic form, with corrections and additions suited to the present state of our knowledge.
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