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B A f 



FIG. 42. COMMON CLAM. A. showing Siphons partly extended; in., Incurrent Orifice; r., 

 Excurrent Orifice ; /, Foot ; n, thickened border of the Mantle projecting beyond the 

 Edge of the Shell ; B, Siphons, greatly extended. (The shell is not drawn, as there was 

 no room for it on the page.) The excurrent and incurrent orifices are more open than in A. 



