"Gasteropod" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conchological, entomological and ornithological, which might stay us a while if we were making a catalogue. A conch-shell twenty inches long and ten in diameter will do for a sample—not a small gasteropod! They do not excel us so much in butterflies as I had expected, but some of the beetles are fearful things—six inches long, and with veritable arms on their heads each five inches long, with elbow-joint, wrist ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various |
