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guinolarla; mactra; lembulus or boat-shell; cycias ROOMviii. 
or river-cockle; tellina or telline; psammobia or Xat.Hist. 
i sand-shell; donax or wedge-shell; capsa; Venus, 
of which Dione is the most remarkable; loripes 
or strap-foot; lucina; cardium or cockle; isocar- 
dia or heart-shell; hippopus or horse-foot; tridac- 
na or clamp; etheria; chama; pectunculus orpec- 
tuncle; unio or river pearl-shell; dipsas; anodonta 
or horse-muscle; area or ark; margarita or pearl- 
shell; avicula or bird-shell; malleus or hammer- 
oyster, the black and the white species; perna; li- 
thodomus or stone-house; modiola; mytilus or 
muscle; pinna or nacre; lima; pecten or comb- 
shell; spondylus or thorny-oyster; plicatula; os- 
trea or oyster, the cockscomb, tree, horn of plenty, 
and Virginian oysters are the most remarkable; 
placuna or pancake-shell, of one of the species of 
which the Chinese sometimes make windows; - 
anomia. 
3. Mollusca brachiopoda, such as lingula or 
duck-shell; and terebratula, of which there are a ' 
vast number of fossil species in Room IX. 
Table 31 contains specimens of limestone, coral, 
and wood, perforated by lythodomi, pholades, and 
by the teredo navalis, or ship-worm; pearl-shell of 
commerce, with several varieties of pearls; oysters, 
and other shells, showing the disease that pro¬ 
duces pearls : pinna squamosa with its beard, out 
of which gloves and stockings are manufactured ; 
various 
