Yes thanks Nuelles!

And thanks, Jim, for sharing! Your x-ray photos are lovely. The Murex
pecten is almost spooky. The bivalve is maybe Hippopus hippopus? What
causes the very dark areas on the Roostertail Conch (Photo no. 1,
Strombus gallus)? And speaking of the Strombus gallus, is the photo
perhaps reversed or does the x-ray process, looking straight through a
shell, make an aperture-down shell look aperture-up?

 There is a man in South Carolina, an MD who also x-rays shells. He did
a book a few years back combining shell x-rays with shelly or otherwise
apt poetry and conventional pictures of the shells. It's called Inner
Dimensions, The Radiographic World of William Conklin, published by WRS
Publishing, Waco TX in 1995. Look for it. You may like it.

Some of the juxtapositions work beautifully. For instance, for the
Hebrew Volute he quotes the Victorian poet and newspaperman Sir Edwin
Arnold (1834-1904) "With Sa'di in the Garden":

How opulent the unsullied marble spreads
With ornament, how decked with precious work
Of scroll and spray, volute and chasery,
And grave texts written clear in black and red
Inlaid upon the white....

Nice!

And one of the most lovely is an illustration and x-ray of the big land
shell Achatina pantherina. Simple and elegant on the exterior, it
reveals in X-ray the loveliest superimposed shapes, the sweetest curves
imaginable. He quotes Plato's Phaedrus:

Socrates: Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who here abide,
Grant me to be beautiful in the inner man, and all I have of outer
things to be at peace with those within.

Checking Amazon.com, I find it and another book he has written are both
out of print. Perhaps write to the author? I have his address if you are
interested.

Lynn Scheu
Louisville, KY

"James Emmett, DVM" wrote:
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> In a message dated 5/28/00 1:34:33 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
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> thanks Bob and Rosmary for the right URL
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> Jim