Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Fig, i. stone rocks of Caen, so well known in this country from the greatquantity employed in our architectural ornaments. This exampleis remarkable for the perfection of the spiral lines and thebeautiful disposition of the ribs or elevated portions, which serveto strengthen the delicate chambered shell. The Ammonites cordatus of Sowerby (Fig. 2) is distinguishedby a spiral of a different order from that of Eudesianus. Its ribsforming graceful waving lines, and terminating in a denticulate
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Fig, i. stone rocks of Caen, so well known in this country from the greatquantity employed in our architectural ornaments. This exampleis remarkable for the perfection of the spiral lines and thebeautiful disposition of the ribs or elevated portions, which serveto strengthen the delicate chambered shell. The Ammonites cordatus of Sowerby (Fig. 2) is distinguishedby a spiral of a different order from that of Eudesianus. Its ribsforming graceful waving lines, and terminating in a denticulated FORMS OF ORGANIC REMAINS. 187 edge, give a very symmetrical character to the architecture of thisvariety. The Ammonites crtstagalli Fig. 3), in which we have an arrange-. Fisr. 2. ment of the convolutions not very unlike the last-named species,differs from it in the disposition of those folds which form the sup-
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