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It is this, gracious lady: Order your agents to bring from the ocean living scalaria, and nautili, which are to be secured with least trouble during the mating season.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

However, to cut my story short, the quickened scalaria, and nautili, immediately began to form their shells in the reversed order I had expected, and the secret of fabulous enrichment was solved.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

He has been able to classify many of these creatures, some of them being allied to the nautili, nummuli, cyprides, &c. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

After a season our shell-fish will spawn; the eggs of the scalaria cling together—like a string of pearls; those of the nautili adhere to one another by sixes, in shape of a star.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r