Q. What is Pecten Reef and where can I find it in the Saddleback Valley? A. Throughout the valley there is a limestone deposit that extends about six miles. Called the Pecten Reef, it has imprints ...

I FIND that Prof. Bergson in his Philosophies has been making use of a comparison between the eye of Pecten, the scallop, and the vertebrate eye. This comparison is used as the basis of some far ...

The word vexillology, which names the discipline that studies flags, derives from the Latin term vexillum meaning flag or banner. But in turn, vexillum came from another Latin word, velum, whose ...

C. B. Davenport, On the Variation of the Shell of Pecten irradians Lamarck from Long Island, The American Naturalist, Vol. 34, No. 407 (Nov., 1900), pp. 863-877 ...