Books with author Wood

Excerpt from Index Testaceologicus, an Illustrated Catalogue of British and Foreign Shells: Containing About 2800 Figures Accurately Coloured After NatureAs the whole of the letterpress, except the first column, (wood's Linnean names) is entirely original, the writer should, perchance, have styled himself the-author, rather than the Editor; yet, as the text, in the present work, is avowedly subsidiary to the engravings, he has contented himself with the less honoured appellation. Although the portion alluded to, has been preserved to facilitate the finding of previous references to the Index,' it must not be conceived, from its retention, that the names there specified are invariably the first, or most desirable the preferential specific epithets should be deduced rather from the last column, (in which they usually occur in the order of their publication) and from the dates mentioned in the list of 'abbreviations.'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.