Journal of Conchology, 6. köideConchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1891 Includes the Society's Proceedings, June 1879- |
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Angas animal announced and thanks arbustorum Arion Arion hortensis Author Birstwith Brit British Bulimus canal carboniferous limestone Clausilia rugosa coast Cochlicopa collection colour Columbella common Conch Conchological Society Copgrove Custer Co Denison Roebuck district Donations dredged ericetorum exhibited fathoms Fermanagh figure Freshwater Shells Funchal Fusus genus Hartwith Helix aspersa Helix caperata Helix nemoralis Helix virgata hispida hortensis Ingleton Island J. T. Marshall J. W. Taylor Jeffreys Journal of Conchology Knaresborough Kobelt L. E. Adams Land and Freshwater Leeds Limax Limnæa peregra Linn locality London lubrica Madeira Manchester Marine Shells Mary's Sound Members mill Moll Mollusca mottled form Museum Naturalist Nidd Bridge occurs ornata ovata Physa Pisidium Planorbis pond Port Elizabeth Port Jackson Pupa pygmæa recorded Reeve Ripley Road rotundata sent South Sowerby species specimens spire Staveley Street Testacella umbilicata variety Vitrina pellucida Watson Bay whorls Wood Zonites
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Page 116 - ... offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving, for, of the many individuals...
Page 116 - Owing to this struggle, variations, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if they be in any degree profitable to the individuals of a species, in their infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will tend to the preservation of such individuals, and will generally be inherited by the offspring.
Page 192 - British Fishes ' of Yarrell, in the ' Silurian System ' of Murchison, and the ' Bridgewater Treatise ' of Buckland. Broderip communicated a most valuable Table oi the Situations and Depths at which recent Genera of Marine and Estuary Shells have been observed...
Page 52 - Notes and critical remarks on a donation of shells sent to the Museum of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 79 - Party may for special reasons decide by a majority of three-fourths of the members present at a meeting to permit any member or members to serve on any particular committee appointed by the Government.
Page 34 - Sur la période d'excitation latente de quelques muscles lisses de la vie de relation chez les Invertébrés, ibid.
Page 198 - WE Shuckard, GR Waterhouse, and W. Yarrell. The result of their labors appeared in a ' Series of Propositions for rendering the Nomenclature of Zoology uniform and permanent,' first printed in the Report of the Twelfth Meeting of the British Association, held at Manchester, June, 1842, p.
Page 48 - The species of Pupa are numerous and puzzling. The common species in Custer Co. is P. blandi Morse, which presents various forms, one of which Mr. CF Ancey, to whom specimens were sent, refers to P. bigranata Rossm. Probably they are all referable to P. marginala Drap. as varieties.
Page 6 - ... family Calyptraedae. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, pp. 55-71. 1886. Marine shells of South Africa, collected at Port Elizabeth, with descriptions of some new species. Journ. Conchol. (Leeds), vol. 5, pp. 2-13. 1888. Descriptions of sixteen new species of shells. Proc. Zool. Soc., London, pp. 207-213. 1889. Some further notes on marine shells collected at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with descriptions of some new species. Journ. of Conchol. (Leeds), vol. 6, pp. 6-15. 1889. Further notes on marine shells...
Page 374 - Descriptions of four new Species of terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa, with observations on Helix Huttoniae Bens.