What a swarm of mollusk shells are furnished by every country and every sea, eluding our means of distinction and draining our resources.


Translated by Hugh Elliot, Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition With Regard to the Natural History of Animals, Chapter III (p. 38)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Quotes

What a swarm of mollusk shells are furnished by every country and every sea, eluding our means of distinction and draining our resources.

What a swarm of mollusk shells are furnished by every country and every sea, eluding our means of distinction and draining our resources.

What a swarm of mollusk shells are furnished by every country and every sea, eluding our means of distinction and draining our resources.

What a swarm of mollusk shells are furnished by every country and every sea, eluding our means of distinction and draining our resources.