The Land and Freshwater Mollusks
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Land and Freshwater Mollusks: Indigenous to or Naturalized in the British Isles Dear Dr. Gray, It is forty-two years since you published, as a student, in the ´London Medical Expository,´ your first memoir on some of our Land and Freshwater Mollusks. Ten years later, you were good enough to encourage me, as a youth, in the pursuit of our favourite science, and I enjoyed many pleasant days over your collection of shells in the society of yourself and Mrs. Gray. Another ten years passed, and I had the honour of reading, at a meeting of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, my first crude notions of a ´System of Conchology.´ The volumes in which they were embodied, published by Messrs. Longman and Co., in 1841, were costly, and the only chance left to me of pursuing the subject was to turn printer and publisher myself. With a lithographic press, a staff of print-colourers, a stock of types, and a printing-press, the means of production became comparatively easy. During the twenty-two years elapsed since, I have worked unremittingly on species, considering them more with reference to the phenomena of distribution than of classification. My ´Conchologia Iconica´ has reached its fourteenth volume, and eighteen-hundredth plate. Impressed with the feeling that it would be useful to show how our British molluscan fauna is represented in other parts of the globe, I have commenced an attempt to bring this experience to bear on the subject. 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.
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