Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze, History and description of the Royal Museum of natural history… (1823)
“ Those animals whose body is covered with a shell belong to the class of mollusca; but though several animals of this class have only an interior shell, and others have none at all, the affinity of their organization does not admit of their being separated. The animals belonging to certain shells are preserved in spirits of wine ; those of a large size, as also the naked mollusca, are placed at the bottom of the third division of the chest of drawers, immediately after the collection of insects. ”
