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The Conchological Illustrations
A stunning visual rendering of shell life emerges in this 1841 edition by George Brettingham Sowerby, one of 1,342 digitized items in the University of Michigan Museums and Herbarium Library Collection in HathiTrust.

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From the Homepage: More Than a Beach Read
It's always summer somewhere! This July, we recognize not only the traditional shells, cones, and frigid confections of a typical summer, but also the fiery lines of a poet memorializing an early civil rights march.
July 18, 2024
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