The Nautilus, Vol. 58 PDF Download

Author: Henry A. Pilsbry
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528322126
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Excerpt from The Nautilus, Vol. 58: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Conchologists; July, 1944 to April, 1945 Ten men certainly, possibly three more, collected mollusks in the Coosa River or its tributaries up to the turn of the present century. They ranged from geologists and botanists who picked up such shells as they saw on bars or in drift, to R. E. Call who could measure his catches in bushels. So far as published rec ords are concerned, none of them bothered to tell of the condi tions under which the molluscan populations lived, or indeed, the geologists maybe excepted, what the river was like. A. A. Hinkley visited the stream in 1903, and his account provided a few hints as to the nature of the collecting, no more. Herbert H. Smith went down the river in 1904, having previously lived for a while at Wetumpka near the discharge, was on different parts in other years and shortly before his death spent a season on the Georgia headwaters. His experiences were never printed, and what he had to say of them was kept to personal letters and must seem to us now annoyingly casual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.