If that is the idea, let me recommend the Senate Committee on Conchology to hire somebody else.
Conchology is a science which has nothing to do with mathematics; it relates only to shells.
They appointed me clerk of that Committee on Conchology and then allowed me no amanuensis to play billiards with.
Now compare conchology and geometry together, and you will see what the difference is, and your question will be answered.
Barnes had the conchology nearly ready, and the botany, which was in the hands of Dr.
Its fresh water conchology had been carefully observed by Douglass and myself, and fine collections made.
Already he meditated a conchology of Corsica, a colossal history of all the molluscs which live upon its soil or in its waters.
I have set to work upon a conchology of Corsica, which I hope soon to publish.
The species described in Mineral Conchology are found in the blue marl, at Folkstone, and in the chalk.
Conchology is the study of shells, viewed and described as to what they are either in themselves, or in relation to the soft, inarticulate animals which produce them, and of which they form a part.
It indicates a dilemma with which the wilful amateur in the first-hand study of conchology is confronted.
Brown's Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain (1827), pl.
She turned away, and pretended to be looking at the leaves of the seaweed hedge while Mavis and Francis were arranging to take lessons in Conchology three days a week, from two to four.
I am only an exiled Professor, teaching Conchology to youthful aliens, but I retain some remnants of the wisdom of my many years.
Because it was Tuesday and nearly two o’clock, the Professor of Conchology was making ready to receive pupils, which he did in an arbor of coral of various shades of pink, surrounded by specimen shells of all the simpler species.
See, we will go out by the back door, so as to avoid the other pupils who will soon be arriving in their thousands, for my Conchology Course is very popular.
So they made great haste to go out by the back way so as not to meet the Conchology students, and cautiously crept up to their horses—and, of course, the biggest and best horse was given to the King to ride.
He whispered this into the Princess’s ear while the Professor of Conchology looked on with mild surprise.
Rudiments of Conchology with Explanatory Plates and References to Collection of Shells in British Museum.
The conchology occupies the three last classes, and one order of another class, in the well-known work which I have before mentioned to you.
Within a few years, conchology has become a study of considerable importance, from its close connexion with geology.
The fresh-water conchology of the lakes and rivers visited was often attractive, when other objects excited little interest.
The interest which had been excited by the conchology of the Mississippi and Wisconsin valleys, was renewed in the descent of the Fox River, particularly in the section of it below Winnebago Lake.
