Paper, 'On the growth of land shells [snails]' by E J [Edward Joseph] Lowe
Reference number: AP/37/5
Date: 14 February 1854
Description
Lowe shares brief observations on molluscs of the genus Helix which have been kept in a box and fed daily. He suggests that the shells of Helicidae increase 'but little for a considerable period, never arriving at maturity before the animal has once become dormant'; that the shells do not grow while the animal itself remains dormant; that the growth of the shells is rapid when it does take place; and that most species bury themselves in the ground 'to increase the dimensions of their shells'.
Subject: Zoology / Malacology
Received 18 February 1854. Read 2 March 1854. Communicated by Henry James.
Written by Lowe at Observatory Beeston [England].
This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the growth of land shells'.
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- AP/37/5
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- 14 February 1854
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- 4 pages
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Henry James, Paper, 'On the growth of land shells [snails]' by E J [Edward Joseph] Lowe, 14 February 1854, AP/37/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_37_5/paper-on-the-growth-of-land-shells-snails-by-e-j-edward-joseph-lowe, accessed on 21 April 2026
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Date: 31st December 1856
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0004
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Archived papers: volume 37, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1853-1855
1853-1855 Reference number: AP/37
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