Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals

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iipii'afi^^fef^: — CONCHOLOGIA ICONICA: ILLUSTRATIONS ANIMALS,SHELLS OF MOLLUSCOUS VOL. XL MONOGRAPHS OF THE GENKECONTAINING CREPIDULA.PINNA. UMBRELLA. CRUCIBULUM.PERNA. PEDUM. TROCHITA.MALLEUS. lANTHINA. VULSELLA. ANOMIA.COLUMBELLA. CEENATULA. META. PLACUNANOMIA. CALYPTR^A. LOVELL AUGUSTUS REEVE, F.L.S., F.G.S., COBKESPONDING MKMBEK OF THE NaTlRAI, HISTORV SOCIETY OF Wl'UTEMBEUG, AND OF THE LTCEIM OF NATUKAI. HISTORY OP NEW YOKE. 'Why stand we gazing on the sparkling brine, With wonder srait by its transparency. And all-enraptnred with its purity? Because the unstained, the clear, the crystalline. Have ever in them something of benign." Wordsworth LONDON REEVE, HENEIETTA GARDEN.LOVELL STREET, COVENT 1859.Hoi ^r'^.:^ " 1/ MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS PINNA, ' Give '11me your gloves, I wear them for your sake." Shaks'pea\