conchology
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One of his bestselling works was an introduction to conchology, the science of shells.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021
He called these “combinations of concrete objects,” recurring in time, “involutes,” a term he borrowed from conchology.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
Emerson, curator of mollusks at the Museum of Natural History, provides the basic conchology, including a cautionary account of a species of cone-shell snails whose "dartlike radular delivery apparatus" can cause a fatal wound.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its fresh water conchology had been carefully observed by Douglass and myself, and fine collections made.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The days of conchology were then doomed; and the study of the mollusc, or malacology, took its place.
From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by E. G. B. Moss
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