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                               RUDIMENTS

                                  OF

                              CONCHOLOGY;

                                 WITH

                          EXPLANATORY PLATES.




               [Illustration: Rudiments of Conchology.]




                               RUDIMENTS

                                  OF

                              CONCHOLOGY:

                             INTENDED AS A

                 FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE.

                                 WITH

                          EXPLANATORY PLATES,

                                  AND

               REFERENCES TO THE COLLECTION OF SHELLS IN
                          THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

                           BY THE AUTHOR OF

                    "THE GEOGRAPHICAL PRESENT," &c.

              [Illustration: A new and improved Edition.]

                                LONDON:

                          DARTON AND HARVEY,

                          GRACECHURCH STREET.

                                 1837.


                                LONDON:

                      PRINTED BY JOSEPH RICKERBY,
                            SHERBOURN LANE.


ADVERTISEMENT.


The Compiler of the following pages has derived the greater part of the
information contained in them from "The Conchology of Lamarck," from
"Burrows's Elements of Conchology," and other introductory treatises.

In the present Edition of this little Work many alterations and
additions have been made, with the hope of rendering it more useful to
the young student.


ERRATA.

[Note: Corrections were applied.]

  Page 3, _for_ Plate 1, _read_ Plate 2.

  Page 16, line 8, _for_ squamosa, _read_, squamosus.

