OF NEW ENGLAND. 11 
weeks, crisping the leaves, and baking the ground as dry 
as potter’s ware, and yet these conditions not affecting in 
the least their vitality. They have been kept for years in 
pill boxes, and yet on subjecting them to moisture, have 
crawled about appearing as well as ever. In “ Wood- 
ward’s Manual of Shells” is the following, chronicled by 
Dr. Baird, regarding the resuscitation of a desert snail. 
“This individual was fixed to a tablet in the British Mu- 
seum on the 25th of March, 1846, and on March 7th, 
1850, it was observed that he must have come out of his - 
shell in the interval (as the paper had been discolored, 
apparently in his attempts to get away) but finding escape 
impossible, had again retired, closing his aperture with 
the usual glistening film; this led to his immersion in 
tepid water and marvellous recovery.” The power pos- 
sessed by the snail to reproduce certain portions of its 
body removed by violence, has long attracted the atten- 
tion of Zodlogists. The horns, or tentacles, and even 
portions of the head have been cut away, and in due 
course of time these lost parts have been restored by a 
new growth. The whole head has been cut away, and 
though in many cases terminating the life of the victim, 
yet in some instances the parts removed have been fully 
restored, This seems the more wonderful when we con- 
sider the complicated character of the head and mouth. 
The shell may be broken, and even portions of it removed, 
and yet after a certain lapse of time the injured parts will 
be repaired by a deposition of shelly matter at the frac- 
tured parts. We have thus far examined briefly the gene- 
ral history of the snail. Let us now proceed to examine 
more minutely its anatomical characters. 
Figure 10, on plate 1, represents the common large 
snail of the woods, the white lipped Helix, or technically 
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