Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius, Linn.) with illustrations on its external form and internal structure aside from these minor points

Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius, Linn.) with illustrations on its external form and internal structure aside from these minor pointsPp. (4), 2 68; 8 full page monochrome lithographed plates (15 total lithographs many are two page). Recent green one half straight grain morocco leather over English marbled boards, green endpapers, 4to (293 x 232 mm). According to DSB X, p. 261, "The attention of the scientific community was first focused on Owen in 1832 when he published Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus. which was based on a single specimen of this delicate organism that was previously

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