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Family Nassidae. No. 21.
The Family Nassidae, containing several genera and many species, is distributed throughout most of the seas of the world. One of these ([[underline]] Nassa reticulata [[/underline]]) is extremely destructive to the oysters in Western Europe, as it bores through the shells of the young, and eats untold millions of the animals. 

Family Turbinellidae. No. 22.
This group includes a few large, solid tropical species, one of which is the Sacred Chank or Shankh of the Hindoos. By them it is cut into

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the 'c' in "Schankh" was crossed out so I believe it was a correction, hopefully this was the right way to fix it.