I*\ 



CONCHOLOGIA SYSTEMATICA, 



OR 



COMPLETE SYSTEM OF CONCHOLOGY: 



IN WHICH 



THE LEPADES AND CONCHIFEROUS MOLLUSCA 



ARE DESCRIBED AND CLASSIFIED 



ACCORDING TO THEIR NATURAL ORGANIZATION AND HABITS. 

 By LOVELL f REEVE, F.Z.S., 



MEMBER OF THE CUVIERIAN SOCIETY OF PARIS, ETC. 



IN TWO VOLUMES. t! ' 



VOL. I. 



0, quantum Natura varia est ! ccmiponit, coagmentat, separat, iterum jungit, ludit quoque, ut fallere videatur 

 sed nianet simplicissima, manet veridica natura: — post Biblia sacra, nullus mihi carior libro nature. 



Klein, Tentamen Methodi Ostraeol 

 Pro exereitu gymnastico et palaestrico hoc habemus, 

 Echinos, Lepades, Ostreas, Balanos captamus, Conchas. 



Plautus, Rudens. 

 (I, tcai "OaTpea rotrffa, fivOovs lirf- /36<TKerai uA/n/s, 

 Ni/mra<, ^rpofifSot re, ITeAwpiaces re, M-V6S re. 



NlCANDER. 



LONDON: 



PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY 



LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW : 

 I B. BAILLIERE, PARIS :— ASHER AND CO., BERLIN :— WILEY AND PUTNAM, NEW YORK. 



1841. 



