conchologist
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conchologists
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He was the first serious arachnologist and conchologist in Britain, and an expert on viticulture.
From Nature ● Oct. 8, 2018
Such a period of refrigeration is required by the conchologist to account for the prevalence of northern shells in the Sicilian seas about the close of the Pliocene or commencement of the Pleistocene period.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few shells.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
Thus a cast such as a, Figure 51, commonly called a fossil screw, would never be suspected by an inexperienced conchologist to be the internal shape of the fossil univalve, b, Figure 51.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
I should like to see a conchologist in a simple costume of shells.
From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Dentists were interviewed for Local Anaesthetic, stonecutters for The Tin Drum and conchologists for From the Diary of a Snail.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of our most learned conchologists is now engaged, in describing, classing, and publishing a drawing of it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
Perhaps on the same principle which has caused a fact generally noticed, viz. that conchologists, butterfly-fanciers, &c., are unusually prone to commit felonies, because too little of a human interest circulates through their arid pursuits.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
The Antiquarian Society were twitted as medal-scrapers and antediluvian knife-grinders; conchologists were turned into cockleshell merchants; and the naturalists were made to record pompous histories of stickle-hacks and cockchafers.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
See what happens when two conchologists get caught in a necromantic nightmare of their own.
From Made in Tanganyika by Carl Richard Jacobi
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