The dispersal of shells : an inquiry into the means of dispersal possessed by fresh-water and land Mollusca / by Harry Wallis Kew ; with a preface by Alfred Russel Wallace .. ; with illustrations.

  • Harry Wallis Kew
Date:
1893
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Credit: The dispersal of shells : an inquiry into the means of dispersal possessed by fresh-water and land Mollusca / by Harry Wallis Kew ; with a preface by Alfred Russel Wallace .. ; with illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Orchid-houses, foreign snails in, 199, 231, 263. Orchids, a Helicina found in a case of, 199. Orcutt, C. R., on shells in a tank, 21. Orinoco, rafts of, 129. drift-timber from, at Tobago, 128, 135. Otter’s-shell, shoveller-duck caught by, 60. Otters, probable dispersal by, 50. Ova. See Eggs. Owls, probable dispersal by means of, 162. Oxford, Helix pomatia in Botanic Gardens at, 186. Oxford Street, Dreissena poly- morpha in water-pipes in, 18. Oysters, mice, rat, and fox caught by, 58- rails, plover, and cormorant caught by, 60, 61. P. Palaeozoic coal measures, land- shells of, 115. Palm-trunks, shells carried on, 200. Paludina vivipara, tenacity of life of, 28. clinging by closure of oper- culum, 86. Parana, rafts of, 130. Parmacella found near Newcastle, 208, 263. Partridges, earth on feet of, 158. Pams biarmicus, shells in crop of, 160. Pascal, L., on a snail’s eggs passing the digestive system of swans, 46. Payne-Gallwey, Sir R., on a cockle clinging to a dunlin, 59. Peacock. See Woodruffe-Peacock. Pearce, S. S., on a bivalve clinging to a frog, 73. on dispersal with chalk, 197. with soil, 198. Pearl-mussel. See Unio mar- garitifer. Peers, J., on bivalves clinging to toads, 74- Peewit, cockle clinging to, 59. Pennant, on Helix pomatia in Britain, 235. Peregrines, probable dispersal by means of, 161-2. Petersfield, attempt to colonize Helix pomatia at, 187. Pfeiffer, Madame Ida, tenacity of life in Cyclostoma, 113. Pheasant, slugs in crop of, 177. Philippines, floating timber amidst, 131- land-shells of, 136. Physa, in tanks, 19, 21, 22. Physa acuta, in Britain, 224. P. gibbosa, in a tank, 19. P. gyrina, carried with plants, 196. Pickering, Mr., on tenacity of life in land-snails, 109, 113. Pidgeon, D-, on heart - cockles clinging to fish-hooks, 58. on Helix pomatia, 241. Pigeon, balls of earth on legs of, 54, 158. living snails in the crop of, 161, 163. barley scattered from the crop of, 162. Pine-beds, Bulimus goodallii in, 230. Pine-plants, supposed dispersal with, 230. Pisidium, on land, 4, 34. killed by frost, 42. in stomachs of frogs, 45. extruded by newts, 46. clinging to water-beetles, 65. to a newt, 72. Pisidium or Sphcerium, clinging to crayfishes, 83. Pisidium etheridgei, clinging to water-bugs, 63. P. fontinale clinging to Nepa, 62. to a water-beetle, 65. Planorbis, adhering to collecting nets, 16. reviving after being frozen, 42.
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