Excerpt from Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus, or a Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign: Illustrated With 480 Figures
It appears absurd that the word Linnean names, should be continued to shells wholly unknown to Linneus; yet as the arrangement is Linnean, the head could not well be dis pensed with, without injury to the body.
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