A Conchological Manual

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature
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Author: George Brettingham Sowerby ISBN: 1230000159189
Publisher: VolumesOfValue Publication: August 10, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: George Brettingham Sowerby
ISBN: 1230000159189
Publisher: VolumesOfValue
Publication: August 10, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

From Introduction
...After describing the nature of the science and defining its objects, we shall proceed to explain the structure of those objects, and the manner of their growth. We shall then enter somewhat minutely into the principles of classification, the distinctions upon which they are founded, and some of the technical terms used to express them. After which we shall pass through the arrangement of Lamarck, defining the general divisions adopted under the terms of "Classes, Orders, and Families," as far as they are capable of definition. The subdivision of the latter into genera will only be entered into so far as to enumerate the principal of them, the more minute descriptions being reserved for the alphabetical part of the work...

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This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

From Introduction
...After describing the nature of the science and defining its objects, we shall proceed to explain the structure of those objects, and the manner of their growth. We shall then enter somewhat minutely into the principles of classification, the distinctions upon which they are founded, and some of the technical terms used to express them. After which we shall pass through the arrangement of Lamarck, defining the general divisions adopted under the terms of "Classes, Orders, and Families," as far as they are capable of definition. The subdivision of the latter into genera will only be entered into so far as to enumerate the principal of them, the more minute descriptions being reserved for the alphabetical part of the work...

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