PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION, 



In Nnmhers, profusely Uluslraled, price 2s. 6(1. each, plain ; Ss. Cxi. coloured, size royal %vo. 



ELEMENTS OF CONCHOLOGY, 



COMPRISING 



C&e pI)|)siiokigital 1^isitor|) of ^\)t\\^ 



THEIR MOLLUSCOUS INHABITANTS, 



THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, HABITS, CHARACTERS, AFFINITIES 

 ARRANGEMENT, AND ENUMERATION OF SPECIES. 



LOVELL REEVE, A.L.S. Etc. 



AUTHOR OF THE 'CONCHOLOGIA ICONICA*. 



Valuta angidiifii. 



The object of the present work is to invest the Science of Conchology with 

 fi high and interesting character, in an elementary form ; to introduce in an 

 explanatory and popular style, what has almost been confined (except in the 

 admirable example begun by Mr. Gray in ' Turton's British Shells^) to the 

 regions of physical anatomy ; and to ennoble the spirit of collecting shells, 

 by inducing a love of enquiry into the nature and habits of their molluscous 

 inhabitants. Shells are too frequently collected in the present day as mere 

 objects of fancy or ornament, fascinating the amateur by their varieties oi 

 form and colour, without exciting the least enquiry as to their nature or 

 zoological character. The Conchologist should look upon liis shells, in the 



