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Excerpt from The Linnaean System of Conchology: Describing the Orders, Genera, and Species of Shells, Arranged Into Divisions and Families; With a View to Facilitate the Student's Attainment of the Science The animal is a soft, fleshy, exsanguinous substance, without bones, but generally furnished exteriorly with a muscle, by which it adheres to the shell, occasioning certain indentations, thence called muscular impres sions. Like other animals, it is endued with lungs, heart, mouth, and organs peculiarly adapted to, its nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.