Download or read book A Manual of the Mollusca written by S. P. Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual of the Mollusca: Or, a Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells The second part of this Manual is now in preparation, and will be published early in the summer. It will contain an account of the remaining orders of shell-fish: a chapter on the Geographical Distribution of the Mollusca, with a Map of the Marine and Terrestrial Provinces; a chapter on the distribution of Fossil Shells; another on the methods of collecting and preserving Land, Fresh-water, and Sea-shells; the Preface; and an Index of the genera and technical terms. The writer desires to acknowledge his obligations to Mr. Hugh Gumming, Professor Edward Forbes, and other gentlemen who have assisted him by advice, and the loan of specimens; also to Mr. Van Voorst, for permission to copy some interesting figures from the "British Mollusca;" and his thanks are most especially due to Mr. John Edward Gray, Keeper of the Zoological Department of the British Museum, for access to his library and cabinet, and the use of some of the best engravings which illustrate these pages. 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.