conchology

Species identification can be performed using morphological and conchology features.

Reeve, meanwhile, was apprenticed to a grocer at the age of 13, but became interested in conchology when a sailor visited the shop in Ludgate Hill and sold him conch shells he had brought back from a South Seas voyage.

Journal of Conchology 14: 239-256 (1914), 267-276 (1915).

He taught engraving in New Harmony and engraved many illustrations for Thomas Say (1787-1834), an American naturalist who wrote his multivolume Conchology there.

Manual of Conchology. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

His enthusiasm for conchology the study of shells, inspired designs for a dessert service introduced by Wedgwood around 1790, including the bowl on which this one is based.

Thus began a love affair with the world of conchology. Don would be internationally recognised as an expert on seashells of the Arabian Gulf, and seashells would forever be a family interest and occupation.

American Journal of Conchology. New Series 4(3): 150-151.

In 2010, Rawlings won the Grand Prix from the French Association of Conchology at the World Festival of Underwater Pictures in Antibes, France.

Delaney [begins her life's work] at 72, she wondered whether she was up to the detective work required that "would combine the skill sets of mind-reader, forensic art historian, psychologist, biologist, all with expertise in landscape in papermaking, in 18th-century collecting, in botany, in conchology. Could an amateur ever do it?" In fact, the status of the amateur was highly respected until the late 19th century, implying, as it did, that some of the finest achievements result from individual dedication to a field of inquiry.

Ian Wallace, NML's curator of conchology and aquatic biology, has been researching the Liver Bird for 20 years.

Professor Julius von Haast wrote in 1881 about acquiring specimens from Lommel for the Canterbury Museum collection in New Zealand: "In 1862, at my suggestion, the Provincial Council voted [pounds sterling]100 for the purchase of type collections in mineralogy, lithology, palaeontology, and conchology, which were obtained from the Mineralien Comptoir in Heidelberg, Germany, under very favourable conditions.

There are plenty of light shell collector's references on the market, but if one seeks a serious shell science packed with full-page color photos and conchology facts, Shells-Muscheln-Coquillages is the item of choice.

Journals of botany, entomology, conchology, ornithology, geology and paleontology were founded catering to more specialized interests.

There were great expectations for the museum as Gesner stated in the letter the "collection is intended to contain all the objects of Natural History in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, embracing Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, Zoology, Ornithology and Conchology".