malacologyn.

1832 R. Owen Mem. Pearly Nautilus 2 The circumstances which the Baron Cuvier so justly adduces as tending to retard the progress of Malacology in general, seem especially to have contributed to obscure the history of Nautilus pompilius.

1834 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom XII. 139 M. de Blainville has proposed the name malacozoology, or thus abbreviated, malacology,..a scientific discourse or treatise on the soft animals.

1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 39 306 We have also seen your book upon shells, or rather upon malacology.

1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 14 This branch of Natural History has leaped at once out of the mere childish toy of conchology into the maturer science of malacology.

1883 Proc. 31st Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 424 When Cuvier and the immortal Lamarck reformed the classification and for the first time created a science of Malacology, opposition was decided and long continued.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs 9 There has been no general book on malacology written in England for forty-five years.

1975 Nature 27 Feb. 757/1 Malacology..emerged from the comparative anatomical studies of Cuvier, which revealed the basic molluscan plan.

1991 M. Dorris & L. Erdrich Crown of Columbus ix. 157 I told Racine that I had spent an interesting afternoon..gathering books on conchology and malacology.

1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 38 Men took a great pride..in fattening their different coquillages, not so much..with a view to the increase of the malacology within, as to produce enormous shells.

1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 548 Sometimes after mousing a snail till it has put its head out..they fly at and peck off a little mouthful of its malacology.