Shells
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on numbers of shells in Porto Santo and Madeira excluding the Desertes, 1856
Notes on numbers of shells, both extinct and extant, in Porto Santo and Madeira with percentages of the total, 1856.
Notes Porto Santo Beach shells, and Grand Canary, 3-7 December 1855
Notes titled 'Brit[ish] Museum indicating shells were held there.
Lists of shells found on a beach on Porto Santo, also notes where else they are found or whether extinct.
Grand Canary shells including lists that are extinct and extant, 3-7 December 1855.
Notes relating to fossil shell species, 4 May [1856]
Notes relating to North African and South European species of fossil shells, 4 May [1856].
Porto Santo shells, 1 December 1855
Notes and sketches relating to Porto Santo shells - limestone, Corals, and lists of other species. 1 December 1855.
Sketch plan and archaeological notes on Druim na h-Uamh Valacui, April 1871
Sketches of shells with notes, 1856
Sketches of shells with notes featuring Helix Aquensis from France, Helix Cariosula and Helix Depressula from North Africa by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, with envelope, 1856.
Story about the cuach [drinking cup] at Taigh Gige, June 1887
Story about the cuach [drinking cup] at Taigh Gige [Tigh Dige or Flowerdale House, Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] that it was only ever drunk from by the seanachas and that it was a very large cup. An accompanying vocabulary note reads 'Conch = Conachag Conachocan.'
Translation of a letter from Gaetano Gemmellaro, 1850s
Translation of a letter from Gaetano Gemmellaro concerning the gradual elevation of the coast of Sicily, the inclination of lava flows, the origin of the Balzo D'Aci which he thinks was affected by an Earthquake and fossil shells found in the Pleistocene beds of Cefali, Sematica and other places in Sicily by himself, Phillipi and Professor Aradas. 1850s.