She married him and moved to his residence on the island of Sicily, where she was able to do her science, design her aquariums and discover her paper nautili. From Wordnik.com. [Ada Lovelace Day and Jeanne Villepreux-Power « Jungle Science] Reference
In the chalk-pit, at the north-west end of the Hanger, large nautili are sometimes observed. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference
The most curious were the beautiful paper-nautili, which swim with their long arms extended in. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting] Reference
The shell is very different from those of the other nautili in being much more deeply indented with circular striae. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
The varieties of the nautili have the same property of floating on the surface of the water, but they seldom are found many miles from land. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
First, however, we pulled out some way, and laid down our fish-pots at a spot where Ali seemed to think it was possible we might capture one of the much-wished-for nautili. From Wordnik.com. [In the Eastern Seas] Reference
English philosopher Robert Hooke, in a discourse on earthquakes, written in 1688, but published posthumously in 1705, was aware that the fossil ammonites, nautili, and many other shells and fossil skeletons found in. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
Among molluscs, the Ammonites, related to the modern Pearly Nautilus, are an example of a race very numerous and varied during all the periods of the Reptilian Era, but disappearing at its close, leaving only a few collateral descendants in the squids, cuttlefish and nautili of the modern seas. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections] Reference
The mollusca of the Silurians ranged from the high cephalopoda, represented in our existing seas by the nautili and the cuttle-fishes, to the low brachipods, some of whose congeners may still be detected in the terebratula of our Highland lochs and bays, and some in the lingulæ of the southern hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
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