Remarks on the dentition of British pulmonifera / by William Thomson.

  • Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907
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[1851]
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Credit: Remarks on the dentition of British pulmonifera / by William Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / r'/ iy s REMARKS ON THE DENTITION OF BRITISH PULMONIFERA^. BY MR. WILLIAM THOMSON, king’s college, LONDON. [With a Plate.] In venturing to offer a few remarks upon the Dentition of the Pulmonobranchiate Mollusca, I do so with much diffidence, partly on account of the paucity of species to be met with in the British Islands, and the absence of those connecting links with¬ out which no satisfactory conclusions can confidently be arrived at; but mainly from the conviction that those who first make observations upon a subject, which had previously been almost, or altogether, neglected, are much more liable to the commis¬ sion of errors, alike in their microscopical examinations and in their physiological deductions, than those who have a foundation to work upon, be the works of their predecessors ever so erro¬ neous. It is more, therefore, with the desire of calling attention * Read at the Meeting of the British Association in August 1850. A