This page, titled SEA-SIDE AMUSEMENTS, is filled with a wonderful variety of seashells. There is another page of sea shells, that includes Figures 1 – 23, on my blog here. The page is from Cassell’s Household Guide Volume II, circa 1869. Click on image to enlarge.
The following is a description of the figures:
24. Tridacna squamosa (Lamarck)
25. Pholas crispata (Linnaeus)
26. Cardium costatum (Linnaeus)
27. Cypraea nucleus (Linnaeus)
28 Trochus Cookii (Chemnitz)
29. Cypraea gangrenosa (Dilwin)
30. Buccinum undatum (Linnaeus)
31. Cypraea eburnea (Barnes)
32. Cypraea onyx (Linnaeus)
33. Bilimus sultanus (Lamarck)
34. Cypraea subviridis (Reeve)
35. Cypraea spurca (Linnaeus)
36. Aplysia inca (D’Orbigny)
37. Cypraea Capensis (Gray)
38. Planorbis corneus (Linnaeus)
39. Cypraea subviridis (Reeve)
40. Turbo magaritaceus (Linnaeus)
41. Donax rugosus (Linnaeus)
42. Echinus, commonly known as the Sea-urchin
43. Patella caerulia (Lamarck)
44. Cypraea argus (Linnaeus)
45. Cypraea argus (Linnaeus)
WOW you even gave us the names – thanks
It took a while to type out all those foreign (to me) words and make sure the spellings were correct. 🙂
Thank you