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WOD ARCH'S 



INTRODUCTION 



TO 



THE STUDY OF CONCHOLOGY: 



DESCRIBING 

 OF 



SHELLS: 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES 

 OF THE ANIMALS; 



DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND 

 CLEANING SHELLS. 



J. MAWE, 



Author of Familiar Lessons on Mineralogy and Geology ; Treatise on Diamonds and Precious 



Stones ; Travels in South America, and through the Gold and 



Diamond Districts of Brazil, &c. &c. 



FOURTH EDITION, 

 WLitl) consitfcrabU ^UUitions ant( Alterations. 



LONDON: 



PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, REES, ORME, B?.OWN, AND GREEN, 



rATERNOSTER ROW; 



AND BY S. MAWE, 149, STRAND. 



'1831. 



