Shells
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on extinct and extant shells on the Islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, 28 March 1856
Notes on the numbers of fossil species [of shell] which are found in the islands of Porto Santo and Madeira giving details of the number of extinct and extant species on both islands and the total of shells in each category which are common to both islands and drawing inferences from these figures in terms of how these numbers came to be, 28 March 1856.
Notes on Grand Canary & Madeira, Porta Santa shells and lists of shells, 30 November 1855
Notes on shells and fossils, 30 November 1855, headed with the title 'Brit[ish] Museum' indicating they were observed there, rather than on the island itself.
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.
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.
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.