Excerpt from Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, Vol. 1 of 11A second, much larger specimen, has been presented to the British Museum by Mr. Henry Harvey, to whom the Museum has been indebted for many remarkable conchological abnormalities, and also for nearly all the types and figured specimens contained in the Sylvanus Hanley Collection.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.