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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9781332308446

Excerpt from A Treatise on Malacology: Or Shells and Shell Fish (1.) In our last volume we completed the survey of those great divisions of animals which, from possessing a bony skeleton, are called the Vertebrata. Our present treatise will he devoted to a far more numerous, hut less interesting, assemblage, - namely, the Mollusca, or soft animals. These, with few exceptions, are either inhabitants of the ocean or of fresh waters. 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.