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4 April 2009

The MUSSELp PDFs Library

Occasionally, we acquire (or produce) pdfs that might be of general interest to the malacological community. This page contains links to those documents.

Latest Acquisitions:

• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2007. Preliminary review of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) of northern Africa, with an emphasis on the Nile. Journal of the Egyptian German Society of Zoology 53D: 89-118. (pdf 5642 KB)

• Say, T. 1817. Conchology. [in] W. Nicholson (ed.), American Edition of the British Encyclopedia or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge 2: 15 pp. (pdf 2557 KB)
• Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. de. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres 6: 66-100 (mussel pages; pdf 4959 KB)
• Rafinesque, C.S. 1820. Monographie des coquilles bivalves fluviatiles de la Riviere Ohio, contenant douze genres et soixante-huit especes. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques, Bruxelles 5(13): 287-322. (pdf 4739 KB)
• Cailliaud, F. 1827. Voyage a Méroé, au flueve blanc, au-delà de fazoql dans le midi du royaume de sennâr.... Two plates from the Atlas, 1823. (pdf 919 KB)
• Spix, J.B. de & J.A. Wagner. 1827. Testacea Fluviatilia Quae in Itinere per Brasiliam Annis MDCCCXVII – MDCCCXX. Monachii, Typis C. Wol. 36 pp., 29 pls. (pdf 9943 KB)
• Rafinesque, C.S. 1831. Enumeration and account of some remarkable natural objects in the cabinet of Professor Rafinesque, in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp. 2-7. (pdf 6954 KB; scanned at high quality because of an especially poor original)
• Haldeman, S.S. 1842. Notice of the zoological writings of the late C. S. Rafinesque. American Journal of Science and Arts 42(2): 280-291. (pdf 1400 KB)
• Philippi, R.A. 1848. Ueber die neuen Gattungen und Arten der Conchlien welche in Griffith's englischer Ausgabe von Cuvier's Thierreich vorkommen. Zeitung für Zoologie, Zootomie und Palaeozoologie 1(11): 85-87. (pdf 1074 KB)
• Middendorff, A.Th.v. 1851. Wirbellose Thiere: Annulaten. Echinodermen. Insecten. Krebse. Mollusken. Parasiten. Reise in den Äussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens, Zoologie 2(1): 163-508 [only the mussel pages, 273-283 and associated plates] (pdf 10,647 KB)
• Conrad, T.A. 1853. A synopsis of the family of Naïades of North America, with notes, and a table of some of the genera and sub-genera of the family, according to their geographical distribution, and descriptions of genera and sub-genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6(7): 243-269. (pdf 3252 KB)
• Binney, W.G. & G.W. Tryon, jr. 1864. The Complete Writings of Constantine Smaltz Rafinesque on Recent & Fossil Conchology. Bailliere Brothers, New York. 96 pp. (pdf 9053 KB)
• Anthony, R. 1907. Étude Monographie Aetheriidae (anatomie, morphogénie, systématique). Annales de la Societe Royal Zoologique et Malacologique de Belgique 41: 322-430, pls. 11-12. (pdf 26180 KB)
• Lefevre, G. & W.C. Curtis. 1910. Reproduction and parasitism in the Unionidae. Journal of Experimental Zoology 9(1): 79-115. (pdf 7476 KB)
• Lefevre, G. & W.C. Curtis. 1912. Studies on the reproduction and artificial propagation of fresh-water mussels. Bulletin of the Bueau of Fisheries 30: 107-201. (pdf 22,906 KB)
• Ortmann, A.E. 1912. Notes upon the families and genera of the Najades. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 8: 222-365. (pdf 26,420 KB)