Excerpt from Index Testaceologicus, or a Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, Arranged According to the Linnean System: With the Latin and English Names, References to Authors, and Places Where Found
As a guide to the comparative size of the different shells, a mark or a letter of the alphabet is added after the num ber engraved on the plate. Thus indicates a shell half an 1inch long; three-quarters of an inch; a an inch; a an inch and a quarter; a an inch and a half; a'+ an inch and three-quarters; 6 two inches; c three inches, and so on': denotes shells of the natural size; and m such as are magnified. Thus in Plate I. Figure 15 is an inch long; fig. 16, an inch and a quarter; fig. 4, an inch and a half; fig. 1, mm inches; fig. 27, three-quarters of an inch; fig. 29, the natural size. In the genus Nautilus.
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