Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 365
fornia that had shellsthirteen inches long and seven or eight incheswide. The animal and shell doubtless weighedfifteen or twenty pounds, since the shells werefive inches thick. These oysters have longbeen extinct, but their fossil shells are abun-dant. If the oyster-farmer could produceindividuals… … AN ANCIENT OYSTER — THIRTEEN INCHES LONG. i9°6.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 269 A LITTLE FLAG-SHIP OF THE AIR. AN INTERESTING MIRAGE IN THE WINTER. The King Albert Bird of Paradise, * pic-tured herewith, was first discovered and namedby Dr. A. B. Meyer of Dresden; but as regardsthe habits…
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