CONTENTS.
| Page | ||
| Introductory Chapter | [ 9] | |
| Class Mollusca | [14] | |
| Order Heteropoda | [15] | |
| The Glassy Carinaria | [15] | |
| Order Cephalopoda | [16] | |
| The Cuttle Fish | [17] | |
| Argonaut | [20] | |
| Pearly Nautilus | [22] | |
| Order Trachelipoda | [26] | |
| The Marble Cone | [27] | |
| Porphyry Olive Shell | [28] | |
| Money Cowrie | [29] | |
| Diadem Whorl Shell | [31] | |
| Common Columbella | [31] | |
| Music Harp Shell | [32] | |
| Wide-Mouthed Purpura | [33] | |
| Spotted Scorpion Shell | [37] | |
| Variegated Sea-Trumpet | [39] | |
| Caniculated Pear-Shell | [40] | |
| Babylonian Split-Mouth | [40] | |
| Marble Turban-Shell | [41] | |
| Imperial Top-Shell | [41] | |
| Precious Scalaria | [42] | |
| Iris Ear-Shell | [43] | |
| Dusty Neritina | [44] | |
| Viviparous Paludina | [44] | |
| Lymnæa Stagnalis | [45] | |
| Horn-shaped Planorbis | [46] | |
| Red-mouthed Bulimus | [46] | |
| Mummy Puppet Shell | [47] | |
| Wood Snail | [47] | |
| Order Gasteropoda | [51] | |
| The Red Slug | [51] | |
| Woodlike Bulla | [53] | |
| Nail-shaped Crepidula | [54] | |
| Mediterranean Umbrella | [54] | |
| Clouded Fissurella | [54] | |
| Hungarian Bonnet Shell | [55] | |
| Scaly Chiton | [56] | |
| Class Conchifera | [57] | |
| Order Unimusculosa | [64] | |
| The Horse-Foot Bowl Shell | [64] | |
| Oyster | [65] | |
| Great Comb Shell | [68] | |
| Pearl Oyster | [69] | |
| Hammer Oyster | [77] | |
| Rough Pinna | [77] | |
| Common Mussel | [79] | |
| Giant Tridacna | [81] | |
| Order Bimusculosa | [82] | |
| The Fresh-Water Mussel | [83] | |
| Heart-shaped Isocardia | [84] | |
| Wedge-shaped Donax | [85] | |
| Sheath Solen | [85] | |
| Date-shaped Pholas | [87] | |
| Ship-Worm | [89] | |
| Class Cirrhipeda | [91] | |
| Order Cirrhipeda Pedunculata | [92] | |
| The Smooth Barnacle | [92] | |
| Order Cirrhipeda Sedentaria | [94] | |
| The Acorn-Shell | [94] | |
| Class Annulata | [97] | |
| Order Annulata Sedentaria | [98] | |
| The Magnificent Amphitrite | [98] | |
| Order Annulata Antennata | [100] | |
| The Sand-Worm of the Fishermen | [100] | |
| Blood-coloured Leodice | [100] | |
| Spinous Sea-Mouse | [102] | |
| Order Annulata Apoda | [102] | |
| The Common Earth-Worm | [103] | |
| Medicinal Leech | [106] | |
| Class Crustacea | [115] | |
| Order Crustacea Homobranchiæ | [115] | |
| The Crab Tribe | [117] | |
| Land Crab | [124] | |
| Hermit Crab | [127] | |
| Lobster | [130] | |
| River Cray-Fish | [131] | |
| Phosphorescent Shrimp | [132] | |
| Opossum Shrimp | [134] | |
| Order Crustacea Heterobranchiæ | [137] | |
| The Spotted Squill | [137] | |
| Common Cloportus | [138] | |
| Molucca Crab | [142] | |
| Crab-like Limulus | [144] | |
| Water Flea | [144] | |
| Small Water Flea | [147] | |
| Hairy Cypris | [148] | |
THE
BOOK OF SHELLS.
Introductory Chapter.
In reviewing the first Division of the animal kingdom, namely, the vertebral animals, we cannot fail to have been delighted with the wonderful and appropriate faculties bestowed upon each individual; but, beautiful and well adapted to the use of their possessors as these faculties may have appeared, our pleasure must be still greater in tracing the powers with which those creatures are endowed, which constitute what we have been accustomed to call the lower orders of animated nature.