Freshwater mussels
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Land and Freshwater Mollusks of Maine, 1862 - 1864
Item
Scope and Contents
This bound volume first includes a copy of the Boston Society of Natural History publication "Observations on the Terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine" from the Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History by Edward S. Morse. Tucked into the pages of the publication are loose handwritten notes. Following the printed Observations are illustrations and notes about various species in the Mollusca family. At the end of the volume are a few letters, both loose and pasted in, to Morse.
Dates:
1862 - 1864
Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks. Original Drawings.
Collection
Identifier: A2025-03-01
Content Description
This volume contains illustrations from volumes 1 through 3 of "The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States" cut out and pasted onto the volume's pages. The illustrations are arranged in the order of publication with hand written labels for each plate and the volume they came from written in the upper right hand corner of each page. Many of the illustrations have additional notes and labels written on the actual plate, and not the page of the volume. While the illustrated...
Dates:
1851 - 1933; Modified: The date range is such because while we know when the original volumes are published (in 1851), we do not know when this volume was formed. We know that it was formed by the time it was gifted to the Boston Society of Natural History in 1933.