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This is plate 59 in: Binney, A.
[ed. A. A. Gould], 1857. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of
the United States and the Adjacent Territories of North America. vol. 3.
The Euglandina plate was drawn by B. F. Nutting, engraved by the
Alexander Lawson firm, and hand-painted by Helen Lawson. Boston
conchologist Amos Binney (1803-1847) undertook his benchmark study of
air-breathing terrestrial mollusks in the 1840's. He had already begun
work on his plates with an artist in Boston, but upon seeing
Philadelphian Helen Lawson's illustrations for S. S. Haldeman (see
Pomacea paludosa (Say, 1829) hand colored
plate - snail and
Pomacea paludosa (Say, 1829) hand colored plate - egg clutch), he
"cancelled all the drawings that had already been made for his own, and
wrote at once to procure her assistance in preparing others." His magnum
opus, The Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks of the United States, was ultimately brought to completion under the editorship of
Augustus Addison Gould, and the 74 plates, 33 of which were drawn and
colored by Helen, were not published until 1857, three years after her
premature death in her late forties from tuberculosis. Her father,
Alexander Lawson, who, with Helen's brother, Oscar (1813-1854), engraved
many of the these plates, died 11 years before Gould had finally
shepherded the work to publication. The eminent specialist in American
land snails, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, stated that he considered the
plates of this volume to be "the finest shell illustrations ever made."
Binney, A., 1851 [ed. A. A. Gould]. The
terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States and the
adjacent territories of North America. vol. 1. Little Brown, Boston.
xxix + pp. 9-366 [lacking pp. 265-364] incl. several vignettes + 16 pls
<http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10820805>;
vol. 2. Little Brown, Boston, pp. 1-362 incl. several vignettes <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10821857>.
Binney, A. [ed. A. A. Gould], 1857. The
terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States and the
adjacent territories of North America. vol. 3. Little Brown, Boston.
pp. 6-40 + 84 pls. [1-74 +10 bis; recto: majority hand-colored; verso:
uncolored duplicates of recto, except pl. 71 verso only; total 167;
several artists and engravers] <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10820468>.
Binney, W. G., 1859. The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the
United States and the adjacent territories of North America. vol.
4. B. Westermann, New York. pp. 1- 207 + 6 uncolored pls. [75- 80,
numbered in succession with those of vol. 3]. [Also published in
Boston Journal of Natural History 7(1):1-207 + 6 pls.]
<https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4988172>.
Binney, W. G., 1878. The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the
United States and the adjacent territories of North America. vol.
5. Welsh, Bigelow & Co., Cambridge, MA. v + pp. 1-439 incl. 312
vignettes + 100 pls. [84 of vol. 3 + 16 originals] July. [Also
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 4:
x + 1- 439 incl. 312 vignettes + 100 pls.]
Binney, W. G., 1883. A supplement to the fifth volume of the terrestrial
air-breathing mollusks of the United States and adjacent territories. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 9(8): 135-166 incl. vignettes + 4 pls. Dec.
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Binney, W. G., 1886. A second supplement to the fifth volume of the
terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States and adjacent
territories. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparitive Zoology 13(2): 23-48 incl.
vignettes + 3 pls. Dec.
<https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30176550>
Binney, W. G., 1890. A third supplement to the fifth volume of the
terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States and adjacent
territories. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 19(4): 183-226 incl.
vignettes + 11 pls. May.
<https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30211974>
Binney, W. G., 1892. A fourth supplement to the fifth volume of the
terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States and adjacent
territories.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 22(4):
163-204, + 4 pls.
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