Of all places in the Philippines Cebú will please the conchologist. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few shells. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
Incidentally, this appears to be the scan of the personal copy of the American malacologist conchologist?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
The next day found us again installed at our old quarters in Palermo, where, during our brief remaining stay, we visit a conchologist, before which event we had no notion that Sicily was so rich in shells. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
We have much pleasure in naming this noble Physa after Dr. Newcomb, the distinguished American conchologist, who has contributed so much, by his researches in the Sandwich Islands, to our knowledge of the genus Helicter or Achatinella. From Wordnik.com. [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference
Then follow some quips on the shell question (currency), and Mr. Secretary Perriwinkle, the most eminent conchologist, and the "debt" of the richest nation in the world; although, "a golden pyramid, with a base as big as the whole earth and an apex touching the heavens, would not supply sufficient metal to satisfy the creditors.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828] Reference
I should like to see a conchologist in a simple costume of shells. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
Do you know any good conchologist in Northampton who could name it?. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
These were Bruguière the conchologist and Olivier the entomologist. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
The next boy, we may suppose, is a conchologist, and asks me to draw. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
As a conchologist he was less favoured, and only found a sort of mussel and some bivalve shells. From Wordnik.com. [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference
Two of the assistants, the ornithologist and the conchologist, had to go home after a short time to recover from its effects. From Wordnik.com. [Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz] Reference
In the eye of a conchologist, they would have been of little value, as all of them were common, and none possessed more than a single valve. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference
Such a period of refrigeration is required by the conchologist to account for the prevalence of northern shells in the Sicilian seas about the close of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Already a conchologist of forty years 'standing when he came to the Museum in 1863, he devoted himself to the institution until the day of his death, twenty years later. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference
I went on board the boat and was also introduced to Mr. Say, the entomologist and conchologist, Mr. Jessup the geologist, and other gentlemen composing the scientific corps. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
St. Joseph's Bay has an ample depth of water for sea-going vessels, while its many species of shells make it one of the best points on the northern Gulf coast for the conchologist. From Wordnik.com. [Four Months in a Sneak-Box] Reference
The forger himself is, I think, far too knowing a man to fake inscriptions on fresh shells, even if, not being a conchologist, he did not know that the oysters were American blue points. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
We have much pleasure in naming this noble Physa after Dr. Newcomb, the distinguished American conchologist, who has contributed so much, by his researches in the Sandwich Islands, to our knowledge of the genus. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference
Though certain species of molluscs have their respective habitats, and that which is considered rare in one part may be common in another, there are few which have not a general interest for the scientific conchologist. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
This attitude affords as good evidence to the conchologist that those mollusca lived and died on the spot as the upright position of the trees proves to the botanist that there was a forest over the Chalk east of Cromer. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
The space of six square feet contained incalculable riches: the doctor had only to stretch out his hand without moving to become instantaneously a doctor, a mathematician, an astronomer, a geographer, a botanist, or a conchologist. From Wordnik.com. [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference
It is the predominance of certain genera and species, such as Tellina calcarea, Astarte borealis, Scalaria groenlandica, and Fusus carinatus, which satisfies the mind of a conchologist as to the arctic character of the Norwich Crag. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
I attended one of the "Wistar parties" of the season, on the 15th, at Mr. Lea's, the distinguished bookseller and conchologist, and reached the city of Washington on the 21st, taking lodgings at my excellent friends, the Miss Polks. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
But, although naturalists have long been familiar with the marine testacea of this island, no successful attempt has yet been made to form a classified catalogue of the species; and I am indebted to the eminent conchologist, Mr. Sylvanus Hanley, for the list which accompanies this notice of those found in the island. From Wordnik.com. [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Our boats have been in port over 6000 years, waiting for knowledge about the whats and whys of life, until barnacles of ignorance have accumulated to such thickness that the conchologist has called that cake of shells "allopathy" which weighed anchor and turned to the great sea of human credulity to expound, with nothing but conjectures to offer. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
A conchologist, and was ambitious of making a "collection," like other naturalists, in which design Arthur encouraged and assisted him. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
A collection of the eggs of British birds, and stuffed the birds: who is now a conchologist, with a very curious, and in some respects an original collection of fresh-water shells, and has also preserved and collected the mosses of fresh water and of the sea: who is worthily the president of his own local Literary Institution, and who was at his work this time last night as foreman in a mill. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches: Literary and Social] Reference
Having obtained information on this subject during my travels on the Continent, I learnt that M. Deshayes of Paris, already celebrated as a conchologist, had been led independently by the study of a large collection of Recent and fossil shells to very similar views respecting the possibility of arranging the Tertiary formations in chronological order, according to the proportional number of species of shells identical with living ones, which characterised each of the successive groups above mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
"I had a solemn conference with Mr. Barnes, our distinguished conchologist, on the subject of your shells. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
Is it not monstrous for a professed conchologist?. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Perhaps some good conchologist (6/1. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
A conchologist; there were, among others, the phasianella, the terebratual, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
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