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In the 19th century, Perry published Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells, which was filled with hundreds of illustrations and descriptions of mollusk shells. This book reproduces some of that work, but Carnall (collections manager, Oxford Univ. Museum of Natural History) engagingly tells a story as spiraled and elegant as the shells on each page. He emphasizes the strange liminality of conch shells, equally at home...Log In or Sign Up to Read More