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Excerpt from Journal de Conchyliologie, 1862, Vol. 10
Mais si au contraire, le substratum est etroit le man teau, n'etant pas a l'abri, secrete une valve inferieure qui non-seulement le protege, mais consolide l'animal qui, prive completement de pied, a besoin d'etre fixe solide ment. 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.