Présentation de l'éditeur
The burden of this little volume of The Young Collector Series is to supply a want often felt and often expressed by our younger naturalists, who cannot afford to give the high prices asked for books upon the subject of which it treats. At the same time it must not be looked upon as a finished monograph, nor yet as the only manual that will be needed by the student. As he makes advances in the after-days he will require the larger text-books of Moquin-T andon, Gwyn Jeffreys, Forbes and Hanley, Rossmassler, and my other work, The Shell-C ollector s Handbook for the Field, to wdiich this little volume may serve as an introduction. In the following text, the anatomy of the snail and fresh-water mussel has been given at some length, since the basis of our work must be founded on structural details, and to make these chapters as full as possible, all the available sources of Continental and Home literature have been searched for information. The whole of the species of our land and fresh-water mollusca are described, and their most common varieties are given in footnotes. To my friends, Mr. J. W. Taylor, F.L.S., and Mr. W. Denison Roebuck,
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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