CONTENTS. 



Glossary * Page vii 



CHAPTER I. 



General Observations 1 



Properties of animals inhabiting shells 2 



Customary uses to which shells and their inhabitants are 



converted > 3 



Enemies to shells and shell-fish 4 



Directions for collecting shells, and arranging them systema- 

 tically . 6 



Methods of preserving and cleaning shells 8 



CHAPTER II. 



Description of the animals inhabiting shells 10 



CHAPTER III. 



Classification . 13 



I. Multivalves , 13 



II. Bivalves 13 



III. Univalves. — 1. With a regular spire 14 



2. Without a regular spire 15 



