desertorum

• XVII EN#9] Helix desertorum (Forsk.) —  The Land of Midian — Volume 2
• [EN#9] Helix desertorum (Forsk.) and Helix (sp. incert.) [EN#10] See "The Gold Mines of Midian, '' Chap. II. —  The Land of Midian — Volume 2
• At Æthiopes à suo solo neque recesserunt, neque in id alios colonos receperunt; id longinquitas effecit regionis immensaeque intercedentium desertorum vastitates. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.
• This particular mollusk (the only one of his race, probably, who ever attained to individual distinction), at the time of his arrival in London, was really alive and vigorous; but as the authorities of the British Museum, to whose tender care he was consigned, were ignorant of this important fact in his economy, he was gummed, mouth downward, on to a piece of cardboard, and duly labelled and dated with scientific accuracy, '_Helix desertorum_, March 25, 1846.' —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• See Dr. BAIRD's _Account of Helix desertorum; Excelsior, & c. _, ch.i. p. 345.] [Footnote 2: Colonel SYKES has described in the _Entomological Trans. —  Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)

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