A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells: Arranged According to the Linnæan Method; with Particular Attention to the Synonymy, Volumen1J. and A. Arch, 1817 - 1092 páginas |
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Amboyna angulated Anomia aperture Arca Argenville body-whirl Bonanni Rec Born Mus breadth Bruguiere Enc Bulla Cardium Chemnitz Chiton coasts of Amboyna colour Conus convex Costa Brit Cypræa Donovan Dorset Cat du Mus epidermis Favanne Gmelin grooved Gualter half as broad half long hinge Humphreys inch broad inch long Inhabits the coasts Inhabits the Mediterranean inside Kirch Knorr Lamarck Ann Lamarck in Ann Lamarck Syst lines long Linnæus Syst Lister Conch longitudinal ribs margin marked Martini Maton and Racket Meth Montagu Test Mytilus Ostrea outer lip pale Petiver Amb Petiver Gaz pillar plaits posterior quarter long Regenfuss Rumphius Schreibers Conch Schroeter Einl Schroeter Einleitung Senegal Shell conical Shell ovate Shell somewhat heart-shaped Shell sub-orbicular slightly smooth Solander Solander's MSS species spire spots striæ striated transversely Tellina tooth Tranquebar Trans transverse bands transverse striæ valve Variety ventricose Venus viii Voluta whirls whitish Wood's Conch wrinkled yellowish zic-zac
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Página 422 - This species, commonly raised for the table (Fig. 319), consists of a footstalk, or stipes, ranging from an inch and a half to two inches and a half in height.
Página viii - Museum Calonnianum. — Specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of Natural History collected by M. De Calonne in France...
Página 448 - The pairs of the same side succeed each other at intervals, varying from one inch and a half to two inches and a half, the common distance being about two inches.
Página 421 - The ends of the pipes have screwthreads worked on the outside of them about an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half long.
Página 214 - ... inches in length, and two feet five inches and a half in breadth, and one foot in depth. Large pearls are occasionally found in them ; the same gentleman once exhibited one which was valued at between nine hundred and twelve hundred dollars ; a large shell of this sort is used as a baptismal font in the church of St. Sulpice, at Paris, and was presented by the Venetians to Francis the first. The shell is worked by the natives of Sumatra into arm rings and other ornaments, and in the hands of...
Página 5 - The valves, instead of being wholly visible, are coated half way upwards with a black membrane, which is reflected from the coriaceous border, and fixed into a groove cut for that purpose round the upper part of each valve. The portion that is seen above the membrane, is roundish, uneven, and emarginate, of a sordid white, or flesh colour, and collectively resembling a row of dried beans. The remains of a thin cortical substance is to be seen on parts of the naked shell, which, independent of the...
Página 78 - Suboval, rlattish, much sloping on the anterior side, semistriated, and semi.pellucid, hinge with two teeth in one valve, and one in the other, pale yellow ; longitudinally radiated with pink ; half an inch long and three fourths of an inch broad.
Página 246 - Shell sub-cordate, smooth, white, covered with an olivaceous epidermis ; umbo very small ; beaks slightly inflected, and placed near the end. Inside smooth, white and somewhat nacred ; margin thin and entire ; hinge pectinated with about fifteen elevated teeth placed within the margin, six on one side and nine on the other, divided by a small concave plate that projects inward.
Página 257 - ... original parties were questioned, and the facts as above stated were placed beyond reasonable doubt. Upon making further inquiry, Professor Whitney found in the hands of the miners various other articles said to have come from under the Sonora Table Mountain. Among these was a large white marble bead, about an inch and a half long and an inch and a quarter in diameter, with a perforation suitable for a string. This bead was taken in 1853, by Mr. Oliver W. Stevens, from a carload of gravel as...
Página 164 - Tubes of this kind are generally made of silver; they should possess the qualities of lightness and of accurate adaptation to the parts which they are destined to serve. Their length varies from an inch and a half to two inches and a quarter, according to the stature of the patient, and their diameter should be such as to admit of easy introduction, without at all encroaching upon the surface of the windpipe.