Harry,
Tim Pearce had trouble posting to the blog so I copied & pasted his
comments myself. I will do the same with your comments. Other people don't
have trouble posting comments.

Thanks.

Aydin

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:43:14 -0400, Harry G. Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Dear Aydin,
>
>That's a very informative blog to which you led
>us (see below). I am especially impressed with
>the illustration of the blind animal of the
>little land snail, Helicodiscus parallelus (Say, 1821). You went on to
write:
>
>"Say didn't give figures of his specimens. I
>don't know if anyone published figures of this
>species before Amos Binney did, as Helix lineata,
>in 1857 in volume 3 of his Terrestrial
>Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States etc.
>However, Binney's drawing showing the shell from
>the side doesn't look like a typical H.
>parallelus. The spire is too high and the
>aperture is too descending. Compare Binney's
>drawing, reproduced below, with my photographs of
>shells here and in my previous post."
>
>Since I am unable to navigate the "feedback"
>process on your website, I'll revert to Conch-L
>for a comment on the history of the iconography of H. parallelus.
>
>Pilsbry (1948:625) gave an abbreviated synonymy
>of this species. A. Binney (1851: 260) reported a
>dozen citations back to the original
>description(s) by Say. Among these are four
>illustrations. Two are in rare European works
>(F鲵ssac and "Chemnitz second edition"), and two
>in scarce American works, the earlier of which
>was Binney (1840: pl. 22, fig. 6). This figure
>(actually three as you demonstrate) is identical
>to the one you cite (1857: pl. 48, fig. 1). The
>remaining illustration appeared in the first
>edition of Gould's Invertebrates of Massachusetts
>(1840), and, if it is the same as that in the
>second edition (1870, fig. 667, p. 405), it is an
>excellent one, closely matching the shells your
>photographs, and bearing little resemblance to the Binney illustrations.
>
>Harry
>
>
>At 07:38 PM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
>>http://tinyurl.com/yee2gh
>>
>>
>>Aydin
>>snailstales.blogspot.com
>
>Harry G. Lee, M. D.
>4132 Ortega Forest Dr.
>Jacksonville, FL 32210 USA
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>email: [log in to unmask]
>look at www.jaxshells.org
>

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