nautili

She married him and moved to his residence on the island of Sicily, where she was able to do her science, design her aquariums and discover her paper nautili.

Ada Lovelace Day and Jeanne Villepreux-Power « Jungle Science 2009

Among molluscs, the Ammonites, related to the modern Pearly Nautilus, are an example of a race very numerous and varied during all the periods of the Reptilian Era, but disappearing at its close, leaving only a few collateral descendants in the squids, cuttlefish and nautili of the modern seas.

Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

English philosopher Robert Hooke, in a discourse on earthquakes, written in 1688, but published posthumously in 1705, was aware that the fossil ammonites, nautili, and many other shells and fossil skeletons found in

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

Shortly after, when the calm evening was dressed in all the gorgeous colours of a southern sunset, and whilst the military calls were sounding those stirring notes he loved to hear, my good horse was lowered to his rest among the nautili and wondrous seaflowers which floated round the ship.

Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol 1856

The shell is very different from those of the other nautili in being much more deeply indented with circular striae.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

It swims about amongst the purple barnacles and pink nautili, seeking on the shores of these shining islands its prey, the curious formation of its mouth being admirably adapted to enable it, whilst swimming under these painted floating islands, to crop off what it lists.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

The most curious were the beautiful paper-nautili, which swim with their long arms extended in

In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

First, however, we pulled out some way, and laid down our fish-pots at a spot where Ali seemed to think it was possible we might capture one of the much-wished-for nautili.

In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

He has been able to classify many of these creatures, some of them being allied to the nautili, nummuli, cyprides, &c. The shells of some are calcareous, of others siliceous.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

As for the "spiral petrifactions termed _cornu ammonis_," of which the Jurassic Alps are full, they were not nautili, he said; they could be nothing else than reptiles; seeing that reptiles take almost always the form of a spiral when not in motion; and it was surely more likely, that when petrified they should still retain the spiral disposition, than that "the Indian Ocean should have long ago overflowed the mountains of Europe."

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829