A treatise on malacology; or, Shells and shell fish . The illustrious Lamarck considered the well-known/^A ^^oluta Zebra (Jig. ?• «) of/Pf ^ our catalogues to be so like a (wmM\ Marglnella, that he has actually mim^ placed it in that genus: andl>\ i the affinity between this shelland Scaphella maculata (6) isimmediate : we thus pass to theS. fulgetrum, and again reachthe typical volutes. Thus, bya different route, we return tothe point from which we started, without a link in thechain being wanting. (91.) We have thus shown that the VolutidtT forma perfect circle of affinity ; and that the
A treatise on malacology; or, Shells and shell fish . The illustrious Lamarck considered the well-known/^A ^^oluta Zebra (Jig. ?• «) of/Pf ^ our catalogues to be so like a (wmM\ Marglnella, that he has actually mim^ placed it in that genus: andl>\ i the affinity between this shelland Scaphella maculata (6) isimmediate : we thus pass to theS. fulgetrum, and again reachthe typical volutes. Thus, bya different route, we return tothe point from which we started, without a link in thechain being wanting. (91.) We have thus shown that the VolutidtT forma perfect circle of affinity ; and that the divisions wehave thrown them into are strictly natural, because theyare prototypes of all the others in the zoophagous of these primary groups, or sub-families, will nowbe examined in detail, in the order in which they na-turally follow j viz., the Volutins, the Mitring, theOlivine, the AxciLLARiisriE, and the Marginellin^.. H .3 a/^\S\. 102 SHELLS AND SHELL-FISH. PART I.
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