SHELLS AND SHELL-FISH.


Description of Plate (Left to Right)
Scientific Name.
Common Name.
Named by
Where Found.
No. 1. Turbo Argyrostona.
No. 2. Strombus Bitubereulata.
No. 3. Nerita Peleronta.
No. 4. Strombus Urceus.
No. 5. Turbo Sarmaticus.
No. 6. Cypraea Argus.
No. 7. Helix Haemastoina.
No. 8. Murex Pomum.
No. 9. Oliva Inflata.
No. 10. Conus Arenatus.
No. 11. Fascioloria Tulipa.
No. 12. Conus Leoninus.
No. 13. Spondylus Pictorum.
No. 14. Conus Literatus.
No. 13. Haliotis Iris.
No. 16. Terebra Maculata.
No. 17. Murex Regius.
No. 18. Oliva Porphyria.
No. 19. Murex Bicolor.		 Silver Month.
Kid Conch.
Bleeding Tooth.

Turk's Cap.
Eyed Cowry.
Red Mouth Snail.


Sandy Cone.



Lettered Cone.
Green Abalone.
Marlin Spike.
Red Murex.
Tent Shell.
Pink Murex.		 Linn.

Linn.
Linn.
Linn.
Linn.
Linn.
Smet.
Linn.
Hwass.
Linn.
Gmelin.
Chem.
Linn.
Gmelin.
Linn.
Wood.
Linn.
Val.		 Singapore.
West Indian Islands.
West Indies.
Amboina.
Algoa Bay.
New Caledonia.
Ceylon.
Florida.
Singapore.
Red Sea.
West Indies.
Florida.
California.
Ceylon.
Japan.
Sandwich Islands.
Panama.
Panama.
Mexico.


WHO does not love the beauty of shells? Who, when visiting the sea-shore, has not sought them with eagerness? Their beautiful colors are pleasing to the sight.

The Indians have always loved shells on account of their bright colors. No doubt they many times tried to paint their faces the same color. They used to make money from the pink or purple portions of them.

There are thousands of different kinds of shells. To get the full beauty of them we must see them in their native homes amidst the sands and stones and the roaring sea.

Mr. Emerson tells of finding the "delicate shells on the shore," and how the fresh waves seemed to add new beauty to them. He wiped away the foam and the weeds and carried them home. He could not take the foam and waves and sky and ocean's roar. He says the shells

      
"Had left their beauty on the shore,
With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar."

Did you ever place a large shell to your ear and listen to its roar? It sounds like the distant roar of the sea. Mr. Wordsworth says:

"I have seen
A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract"
Of inland ground, applying to his ear
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell;
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul
Listened intensely; and his countenance soon
Brightened with joy, for from within were heard
Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed
Mysterious union with its native sea."

We can not all go to the sea to study its wonders. So we will have to do the best we can studying pictures of shells, making collections of as many kinds as possible and studying about the animals that have lived in them.
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