Beautiful Shells of New Zealand

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Edward George Britton Moss. Beautiful Shells of New Zealand

Beautiful Shells of New Zealand

Table of Contents

INDEX

PREFACE

CHAPTER I

SHELLS AND THEIR INMATES

CHAPTER II

COLLECTING AND CLEANING SHELLS

CHAPTER III

DESCRIPTION OF PLATES

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Edward George Britton Moss

An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them

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The remaining two of the five divisions are the Caelenterata, in which the general cavity of the body communicates freely with that of the digestive apparatus, and the Protozoa, which includes all animals, such as sponges, etc., not included in the above four divisions.

The shell of an oyster takes the place of the bones of a dog; and although it may seem strange for an animal to have its bones on the outside of its body, it is really no more strange than for a fruit, such as the strawberry or raspberry, to have its seeds on the outside. Lime is the principal ingredient of all bones; and the bones of vertebrate animals contain a large proportion of phosphate of lime, while the shells of molluscs, or shellfish (as they are popularly called), consist almost entirely of carbonate of lime.

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