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I dove into studying the conchological treasures amassed inside the glass cases.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.

Born March 24, 1834, at Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, he found himself in 1858 at Wheaton, Illinois, engaged in making a conchological collection for the Illinois State Natural History Society.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton

If, therefore, the relative ages of the Picardy and Natchez alluvium were to be decided on conchological data alone, the fluvio-marine beds of Abbeville might rank as a shade older than the loess of Natchez.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

To return, however, to the insects, after this long conchological digression,—I need not multiply evidence, in corroboration of my theory.

From On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera by Wollaston, Thomas Vernon

For, like the story of the dog and the mandrake, it emphasizes the conchological ancestry of these deities and their connexion with the guardians of the subterranean palaces where pearls are found.

From The Evolution of the Dragon by Smith, G. Elliot