Download or read book Illustrations of the Land and Fresh Water Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland written by Thomas Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Illustrations of the Land and Fresh Water Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland: With Figures, Descriptions, and Localities of All the Species; Drawn and Coloured From Nature In the choice of specific names, I have for the most part adopted those of Colonel Montagu, whose work is entitled to the highest praise, from the clearness and simplicity of its descriptions of species; many of which were given prior to those of Continental writers on this branch of science; whose specific names I have given in the numerous synonyms. I have added to the illustrations, figures of an animal of nearly each genus, with short descriptions of their Generic Characters in an appendix, which I thought preferable to mixing them up in the text. 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.