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COLLECTORS of British shells will find this volume very useful for reference. The plates include coloured pictures of all our mollusca having shells, drawn life size in most cases, and also representatives of each genus without shells. Analytical tables are given to facilitate identification, and there are chapters on the habits and structures of the mollusca. If the collection of shells induces students to study the characteristics of the living animals, the book will be a means of education in natural history as well as a convenient reference manual.
Our Country's Shells and How to Kow Them: a Guide to the British Mollusca.
By W. J. Gordon. Illustrated by A. Lambert. Pp. vii + 152. Thirty-three coloured plates. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Ltd.) Price 6s.
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Our Country's Shells and How to Kow Them: a Guide to the British Mollusca . Nature 64, 206 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064206b0
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