The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living Mollusks, and an Aid to the Identification of Shells Native and Foreign, Volumen15Doubleday, Page, 1908 - 485 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
animal aperture apex aquarium bands beaches beaks bivalve body whorl broad brownish canal Cape Hatteras chestnut clam coils columella Conch conchologists Conr Cowry crossed curved dark brown deep Diameter Dog Whelk eggs elongated epidermis flat flattened Florida folds foot fusiform Genus gill Gmel Gray grooved ground colour Habitat hinge inches long Indian Ocean Islands keeled knobs Length Limpet lines Linn live longitudinal mantle margin mollusks mouth Murex narrow nodules oblique olive operculum operculum horny orange outer lip oval ovate oyster pale Philippines pink posterior purple radula ribs rocks rows sand sculptured sharp SHELLS FAMILY SHELLS Genus short shoulder siphon slender smooth snails solid species specimens Spindle Shell spines spiral ridges spire spots striæ Sub-genus surface suture teeth tentacles thick thickened thin tide toothed Triton tropical tubercles umbilicus UNIVALVE valves varices varix Volute west coast West Indies Whelk wide yellow yellowish
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Página 125 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter: There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea...
Página iii - The shell book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign, Ly JE Rogers; eight plates in colour, and ninety-six In black-and-white, mostly from photographs by AR Dugmore.
Página 293 - ... tug of war.' Each tried to shake the other off by repeated blows and jerks of its shell, at the same time creeping over each other's shell and body in the most excited manner. Neither being able to gain the mastery, one began to descend, followed by the other, which overtook it, reaching the bottom first. Yet they are not always bent upon war, but pass and repass each other in an amicable spirit.
Página 124 - His chariot wheel stands midway on the wave. Shake one and it awakens; then apply Its polished lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Página 231 - ... twould an infant's hand obey Stretch 'd forth to seize it in its play; But let that infant's hand draw near, It shrinks with quick, instinctive fear, And clings as close as though the stone It rests upon, and it, were one ; And should the strongest arm endeavour The Limpet from its rock to sever, 'Tis seen its loved support to clasp With such tenacity of grasp, We wonder that such strength should dwell In such a small and simple shell...
Página 397 - ... Paracelsus, and it is the opinion of many of the critics of the day that this will be the work by which he will be the most remembered. A critic has remarked, that one of the finest thoughts of modern times is embalmed in three lines in this poem. There are two points in the adventure of a diver, First when a beggar he prepares to plunge, Then when a prince he rises with his pearl.
Página 282 - ... the bean to the other side of the road, and put it in a small hole behind a piece of stone. The Arion, after a moment's indecision, started off straight for the bean. Again the position of the precious morsel was changed, and again the Arion made for it, this time without being further tantalised. M. Moquin-Tandon noticed, one rainy day in the botanical gardens at Toulouse, two Limax maximus approaching a rotten apple from different directions. He changed the posi1 British Conchology, ip xxviii....
Página 293 - ... tug of war"; each tried to shake the other off, by repeated blows and jerks of its shell, at the same time creeping over each other's shell and body in the most excited manner. Neither being able to gain the mastery, one began to descend, followed by the other, which overtook it, reaching the bottom first. Yet they are not always bent upon war, but pass and repass each other in an amicable spirit. One of the most beautiful sights in molluscan economy is to see these little "golden pippins...
Página 300 - ... tribes, especially those of the Coast Range. From my own observations, which have not been limited, and from the statements of pioneers and the Indians themselves. I hesitate little to express the belief that every Indian in the state, in early days, possessed an average of at least one hundred dollars
Página 459 - It seems that these are the creature's arms, and it is said if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom.