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“CONCHOLOGY is ris !” was the pithy remark of the lamented Edward Forbes, made in his cheery way about forty years ago, when Mr. James Smith of Jordan Hill directed his attention to the arctic nature of some fossil shells in the Clyde district. Capt. Brown, however, had previously but unconsciously published the same hypothesis, which has been lately confirmed and extended by the discoveries of Messrs. Steele and Scott at Glasgow. Since the above remark was made by Forbes the study of the Mollusca has in a general point of view marvellously increased and become popularised by innumerable publications. We have now no fewer than six periodical works on the subject, English, French, Belgian, German, Italian, and American, besides four most useful manuals in English, French, German, and American. The German and latest manual, now before me, has been written by an experienced conchologist whose father (Georg von Martens) was favourably known to science nearly sixty years ago by his “Reise nach Venedig.” The present author may therefore be considered an hereditary naturalist.
Die Weich- und Schaltiere gemeinfasslich Dargestellt.
Von Prof. Ed. von Martens. (Leipzig: G. Feytag; Prag: F. Tempsky, 1883.)
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JEFFREYS, J. Die Weich- und Schaltiere gemeinfasslich Dargestellt . Nature 28, 148 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028148a0
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