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Excerpt from A Review of the Volutidae: Synonymy, Nomenclature, Range and Illustrations Sixty years have passed without a comprehensive re vision and monograph of this important and interesting family. The writer has been, for a number of years, engaged in collect ing and consolidating data in connection with the group and has also had access to and acquired long series of the few common species and a considerable number of the rarities. The present work is based largely upon this material, although in many cases it has been necessary to draw solely upon original descriptions of the respective authors, and also reproduce certain of their none too satisfactory illustrations. A further study of the soft parts will, no doubt, result in changes in the position of certain genera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.