265. A section of the shell of _Melo ethiopicus_ . . . 525
266. Shells of _Harpa_ and _Dolium_, to illustrate generating curves
and gene . . . 526
267. D’Orbigny’s Helicometer . . . 529
268. Section of a nautiloid shell, to shew the “protoconch” . . . 531
269–73. Diagrams of logarithmic spirals, of various angles . . . 532–5
274, 6, 7. Constructions for determining the angle of a logarithmic
spiral . . . 537, 8
275. An ammonite, to shew its corrugated surface pattern . . . 537
278–80. Illustrations of the “angle of retardation” . . . 542–4
281. A shell of _Macroscaphites_, to shew change of curvature . . . 550
282. Construction for determining the length of the coiled spire
. . . 551
283. Section of the shell of _Triton corrugatus_ (Woodward) . . . 554
284. _Lamellaria perspicua_ and _Sigaretus haliotoides_ (_do._)
. . . 555
285, 6. Sections of the shells of _Terebra maculata_ and _Trochus
niloticus_ . . . 559, 60
287–9. Diagrams illustrating the lines of growth on a lamellibranch
shell . . . 563–5
290. _Caprinella adversa_ (Woodward) . . . 567
291. Section of the shell of _Productus_ (Woods) . . . 567
292. The “skeletal loop” of _Terebratula_ (_do._) . . . 568
293, 4. The spiral arms of _Spirifer_ and of _Atrypa_ (_do._) . . . 569
295–7. Shells of _Cleodora_, _Hyalaea_ and other pteropods (Boas)
. . . 570, 1
298, 9. Coordinate diagrams of the shell-outline in certain pteropods
. . . 572, 3
300. Development of the shell of _Hyalaea tridentata_ (Tesch) . . . 573
301. Pteropod shells, of _Cleodora_ and _Hyalaea_, viewed from the
side (Boas) . . . 575
302, 3. Diagrams of septa in a conical shell . . . 579
304. A section of _Nautilus_, shewing the logarithmic spirals of the
septa to which the shell-spiral is the evolute . . . 581
305. Cast of the interior of the shell of _Nautilus_, to shew the
contours of the septa at their junction with the shell-wall . . . 582
306. _Ammonites Sowerbyi_, to shew septal outlines (Zittel, after
Steinmann and Döderlein) . . . 584
307. Suture-line of _Pinacoceras_ (Zittel, after Hauer) . . . 584
308. Shells of _Hastigerina_, to shew the “mouth” (Brady) . . . 588
309. _Nummulina antiquior_ (V. von Möller) . . . 591
310. _Cornuspira foliacea_ and _Operculina complanata_ (Brady)
. . . 594
311. _Miliolina pulchella_ and _linnaeana_ (Brady) . . . 596
312, 3. _Cyclammina cancellata_ (_do._), and diagrammatic figure of
the same . . . 596, 7
314. _Orbulina universa_ (Brady) . . . 598
315. _Cristellaria reniformis_ (_do._) . . . 600
316. _Discorbina bertheloti_ (_do._) . . . 603
317. _Textularia trochus_ and _concava_ (_do._) . . . 604
318. Diagrammatic figure of a ram’s horns (Sir V. Brooke) . . . 615
319. Head of an Arabian wild goat (Sclater) . . . 616
320. Head of _Ovis Ammon_, shewing St Venant’s curves . . . 621
321. St Venant’s diagram of a triangular prism under torsion (Thomson
and Tait) . . . 623
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