ABSTRACT
Garstang, Walter Echinospira sets this riddle to the students of Conchology To make them pay attention to the doctrines of Morphology: And this is how he poses it: “The Ammonite’s old shell From time to time was portioned off, to make it fit him well.
“The smaller shell around his hump was ‘visceral,’ like mine; His outer shell also agrees: it’s ‘pallial’ in fine. We differ in this: his inner shell was fixed by suture, While mine is truly portable, and useful for the future!
