FRESH-WATER SNAILS. 



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These fresh-water air-breathing snails may be kept under 

 water for many hours before life is extinct. 



Fig. 14.— Jar of water, in whicli is contained a number of species of molluslcs, some of whicli 

 have already been studied. Some of them are near the surface, breathing air : A and C 

 are talcing in air ; B\?> just expelling a bubble of air from the lung ; D is crawling on 

 the surface of the water ; E^ (?, and /, are in the act of crawling up, to get a fresli supply 

 of air ; and JS&a. water-breather, having gills, but no lung. 



10. Among the snails collected, there will probably be 

 found some which have a peculiar scale on the hinder part of 



