CONTENTS. 



Glossary Pa^e 



CHAPTER I. 



General Observations 9 



Properties of animals inhabiting shells 10 



Customary uses to which shells and their inhabitants are 



converted • 10 



Enemies to shells and shell-fish 12 



Directions for collecting shells, and arranging them systema- 

 tically * 14 



Methods of preserving and cleaning shells . .^ . . . # 15 



CHAPTER II. 



Description of the animals inhabiting shells 18 



CHAPTER III. 



Classification 21 



I. Multivalves 21 



II. Bivalves 21 



III. Univalves. — 1. With a regular spire 22 



2. Without a regular spire 23 



