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Mollusks -- North America

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• American Conchology, or, Descriptions of the Shells of North America (1830s), by Thomas Say (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Monograph of the Freshwater Univalve Mollusca of the United States: Including Notices of Species in Other Parts of North America (Philadelphia: E. G. Dorsey, 1842), by Samuel Stehman Haldeman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Monography of the Family Unionidae, or Naiades of Lamarck (Fresh Water Bivalve Shells) of North America (Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836), by T. A. Conrad (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Monograph of the Freshwater Univalve Mollusca of the United States: Including Notices of Species in Other Parts of North America (Philadelphia: E. G. Dorsey, 1842), by Samuel Stehman Haldeman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• How to Know the Eastern Land Snails: Pictured-Keys For Determining the Land Snails of the United States Occurring East of the Rocky Mountain Divide (Dubuque, IA: W. C. Brown Co., 1962), by J. B. Burch (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Know the Eastern Land Snails: Pictured-Keys For Determining the Land Snails of the United States Occurring East of the Rocky Mountain Divide (Dubuque, IA: W. C. Brown Co., 1962), by J. B. Burch (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Freshwater Snails of Florida: A Manual for Identification, by Fred G. Thompson (illustrated HTML at ufl.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Synopsis of the Recent and Tertiary Freshwater Mollusca of the Californian Province, Based Upon an Ontogenetic Classification (reprinted from the Proceedings of Malacological Society, 1912), by Harold Hannibal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook for Shell Collectors: Illustrations and Descriptions of Shells From All Parts of the World (fifth edition; Rochester, NY: The author, c1945), by Walter Freeman Webb (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Conchologist's Nomenclator: A Catalogue of All the Recent Species of Shells (London: Reeve Brothers, 1845), by Agnes Catlow, contrib. by Lovell Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Conchologist's Nomenclator: A Catalogue of All the Recent Species of Shells (London: Reeve Brothers, 1845), by Agnes Catlow, contrib. by Lovell Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Freshwater Snails of Florida: A Manual for Identification, by Fred G. Thompson (illustrated HTML at ufl.edu)

• The Conchologist's Nomenclator: A Catalogue of All the Recent Species of Shells (London: Reeve Brothers, 1845), by Agnes Catlow, contrib. by Lovell Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Aquatic Mollusks of North Dakota (1983), by Alan M. Cvancara (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Nautilus (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Conchology (partial serial archives)

• The Land and Fresh-Water Mollusks of Puerto Rico (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1948), by Henry van der Schalie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Evolution, Using Bivalves as a Model Organism (Ithaca, NY: Paleontological Research Institution, c2011), by Paula M. Mikkelsen and Robin Henne (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at teacherfriendlyguide.org)

• A Manual of the Recent and Fossil Marine Pelecypod Mollusks of the Hawaiian Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #153; Honolulu: The Museum, 1938), by William Healey Dall, Paul Bartsch, and Alfred Rehder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histological Techniques for Marine Bivalve Mollusks and Crustaceans (second edition; 2004), by Dorothy W. Howard, Earl J. Lewis, B. J. Keller, and Cecelia S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1943-1948), by Julia Anna Gardner, contrib. by Wendell C. Mansfield
  • Part 1 (Pelecypoda; with a summary of the stratigraphy): PDF at usgs.gov
  • Part 2 (Scaphopoda and Gastropoda): PDF at usgs.gov

• Field Guide to Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest, by Kevin S. Cummings and Christine A. Mayer (illustrated HTML at UIUC)

• The Freshwater Mussels of Ohio (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by G. Thomas Watters, Michael A. Hoggarth, and David H. Stansbery (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Freshwater Mussels of Ohio (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by G. Thomas Watters, Michael A. Hoggarth, and David H. Stansbery (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Freshwater Mussels of Ohio (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by G. Thomas Watters, Michael A. Hoggarth, and David H. Stansbery (PDF at Ohio State)

• Monography of the Family Unionidae, or Naiades of Lamarck (Fresh Water Bivalve Shells) of North America (Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836), by T. A. Conrad (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pectinidae of the Eastern Pacific (Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions v23; Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1959), by Gilbert Grau (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Immigrant Oyster (Ostrea Gigas) Now Known as the Pacific Oyster, by E. N. Steele (PDF at Washington)

• Sea Monsters Unmasked (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1883), by Henry Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Wizard of the Sea: or, A Trip Under the Ocean, by Roy Rockwood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Raising Snails (Beltsville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, 1996), by Rebecca S. Thompson and Sheldon Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1943-1948), by Julia Anna Gardner, contrib. by Wendell C. Mansfield
  • Part 1 (Pelecypoda; with a summary of the stratigraphy): PDF at usgs.gov
  • Part 2 (Scaphopoda and Gastropoda): PDF at usgs.gov

• The Giant African Snail: A Problem in Economic Malacology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1961), by Albert R. Mead (PDF and RTF files at hear.org)

• Monographia Clausilarium in Regione Palaeoacrtica Viventium (in Swedish and Latin; Lund, 1878), by Carl Agardh Westerlund (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Freshwater Snails of Florida: A Manual for Identification, by Fred G. Thompson (illustrated HTML at ufl.edu)

• The Immigrant Oyster (Ostrea Gigas) Now Known as the Pacific Oyster, by E. N. Steele (PDF at Washington)

• Raising Snails (Beltsville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, 1996), by Rebecca S. Thompson and Sheldon Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Synopsis of the Recent and Tertiary Freshwater Mollusca of the Californian Province, Based Upon an Ontogenetic Classification (reprinted from the Proceedings of Malacological Society, 1912), by Harold Hannibal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Revised Descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990) (electronic edition, 2009), by A. G. Beu and J. L. Raine, contrib. by Phillip A. Maxwell (illustrated HTML and PDF in New Zealand)
• Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand (Lower Hutt, NZ: New Zealand Geological Survey, 1990), by A. G. Beu and Phillip A. Maxwell (PDF in New Zealand)

• Geological Observations on South America, by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)

• Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1943-1948), by Julia Anna Gardner, contrib. by Wendell C. Mansfield
  • Part 1 (Pelecypoda; with a summary of the stratigraphy): PDF at usgs.gov
  • Part 2 (Scaphopoda and Gastropoda): PDF at usgs.gov

• Handbook for Shell Collectors: Illustrations and Descriptions of Shells From All Parts of the World (fifth edition; Rochester, NY: The author, c1945), by Walter Freeman Webb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discovery of Stone Implements in Glacial Drift in North America (1878), by Thomas Belt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Memorial Representing the Present State of Religion on the Continent of North-America (London: Printed by W. Downing for the author, 1700), by Thomas Bray (page images at HathiTrust)

• North America: Its Agriculture and Climate (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1857), by Robert Russell (page images in Germany)

• A Geographical Description of the United States, With the Contiguous Countries, Including Mexico and the West Indies (New York: A. T. Goodrich, 1826), by John Melish (page images in Germany)
• Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America, 1823-1827, Together With a Particular Description of Thirty-Three Species of American Oaks and Eighteen Species of Pinus; With Appendices Containing a List of the Plants Introduced by Douglas and an Account of His Death in 1834 (London: W. Wesley and Son, 1914), by David Douglas, ed. by W. Wilks and H. R. Hutchinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Journal of a Mission to the Indians of British Provinces, of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and the Mohawks on the Ouse or Grand River, Upper Canada (London: L.B. Seeley, 1827), by John West (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narrative of a Tour in North America: Comprising Mexico, The Mines of Real del Norte, The United States, and The British Colonies; With an Excursion to The Island of Cuba (2 volumes; London: J. Duncan, 1834), by Henry Tudor
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Plan for Promoting the Fur Trade, and Securing It to This Country, By Uniting the Operations of the East-India and Hudson's-Bay Companys (1789), by Alexander Dalrymple (multiple formats at archive.org)

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