On fossil shells. By Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Esq. F. R. S. In a letter addressed to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. P. R. S
In describing the shell fish supposed to yield the Tyrian dye, Pliny has adverted to its power of boring the shells of other fish; and Lamarck says that all mollusca, whose shells have a notch at the base of their apertures, are possessed of similar powers. In the other genera of turbinated univalve...
| Published in: | Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |
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| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1833
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