Florida sea shells.

Author

Aldrich, Bertha
Snyder, Ethel

Files

Alternative Title

Sea shells.

Description

Focusing on Florida, the book includes a history of sea shell collecting, information on the live inhabitants of the shells, and how to care for a shell collection.

Table of Contents

I. Romance of the beaches -- II. History of mollusks --III. Bivalves or pelecypods -- IV. Univalves or gastropods-- V. Armed mollusks or cephalophods -- VI. Tooth shells or scaphopods -- VII. Other creatures of the sea -- Appendix -- 1. Collecting shells -- 2. Mounting shells.

Notes

The verso of each plate contains letterpress descriptive of plate opposite. Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-116) and index. Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2007. (Florida heritage collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced by the University of Central Florida from a book held in the Main Library at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Subject

Mollusks -- Florida; Shells -- Florida; Depression and the New Deal Years in Florida, 1930-1941; Natural history

City

Boston, Mass. New York, N.Y.

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Extent

viii, 126 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.

Format

application/pdf

Digital Reproduction Specifications

Jpeg2000 images were derived from no less than 400 dpi tiff images

Identifier

100000190 (oclc), FCLA url 20070410 (snx), CF00001741 (IID), ucf:21841 (fedora)

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/

Collection

UCF Florida Heritage Collection

Recommended Citation

Aldrich, Bertha and Snyder, Ethel, "Florida sea shells." (1936). Florida Heritage. 32.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/floridaheritage/32