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"And gained," she continued, "by saving the lives of all those officers, the very thing I told you about!" "You told me that man was killed." "Then it was not you!" "Perhaps they picked up the pieces of the wrong one." "But if you would only tell me how you gained it." "By the pursuit of conchology." "Then it was yourself?" again said Rachel, in her confusion.
"I suppose you'll study cockleology instead of boating, and read up on polywogs while we play tennis, or go poking round with your old spy-glass instead of having a jolly good time," said Jack, hauling away on the strap till all was taut and ship-shape with the bundle. "Tadpoles don't live in salt water, my son, and if you mean conchology, you'd better say so.
It is by the female Professors of this College that those studies which are deemed of least use in practical life as purely speculative philosophy, the history of remote periods, and such sciences as entomology, conchology, &c. are the more diligently cultivated.
Whenever their eyes rested upon a glittering shell among his specimens of conchology, especially if it had several brilliant colors, one would take off his coat, another his shirt, and insist that he should exchange the shell for the garment. When he declined the exchange, but on the contrary presented the coveted article, he soon found he had established a dangerous precedent.
Then you have zoology, or the study of animals, ornithology for birds, entomology for insects, conchology for shells, ichthyology for fishes; all very hard names, and enough to frighten a young beginner. But I can assure you, a knowledge of these subjects, to an extent sufficient to create interest and afford continual amusement, is very easily acquired."
Our preparations were soon made: sketchbooks, drawing materials and covered baskets for specimens were transferred to the keeping of our faithful Mussulman, and we set out, anticipating a day of rare enjoyment. We were fortunate in securing the company of Mr. M , the accomplished president of the Anglo-Chinese College, who had spent some thirty years in Singapore, and was well acquainted with its localities and objects of interest. He was like a complete volume with illustrations on everything pertaining to the East, could answer all manner of unheard-of questions about things that everybody else had forgotten, and had always ready an appropriate anecdote or story just to the point. His very dress was characteristic. It consisted of loose trousers of gray linen, and an old-fashioned white hunting-coat with Quaker collar, and huge pockets that would have answered very well for the saddle-bags of an itinerant surgeon. These were designed as receptacles for such stray "specimens" in botany, geology or conchology as he might chance to discover en route; while thrust into a smaller breast-pocket he carried a brace of huntsman's pistols, with antique powder-horn and shot-pouch slung over the shoulder. His hat was a Panama with low, round crown and a rim nearly as large as an ordinary umbrella. A Chinese youth, an orphan adopted by Mr. M years before, accompanied his patron in a full suit of yellow nankin made
Of my wife I will merely say that she is a perfect paragon of wives can make puddings and sweets and treacle posset, and is the best woman of business in Eastern Anglia of my step-daughter for such she is, though I generally call her daughter, and with good reason, seeing that she has always shown herself a daughter to me that she has all kinds of good qualities, and several accomplishments, knowing something of conchology, more of botany, drawing capitally in the Dutch style, and playing remarkably well on the guitar not the trumpery German thing so-called but the real Spanish guitar.
The science of conchology had heretofore been based almost wholly upon the study of the empty shells. To Agassiz this seemed superficial. Longing to know more of the relation between the animal and its outer covering, he bethought himself that the inner moulding of the shell would give at least the form of its old inhabitant.
It is from fossil conchology more than from any other department of the organic world that we may hope to derive traces of a transition from certain types to others, and fossil memorials of all the intermediate shades of form.
The deuce a thing else; but here is Spanish, French, German, Italian, botany, geology, mineralogy, icthiology, conchology, theology "'Do you teach angeolology and doxyology? sais I. "'Yes, angeolology and doxyology, she said, not knowing what she was a talking about. "'And occult sciences? sais I. "'Yes, all the sciences. London and Paris, eh!
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