 | Oliver Perry Hay - Amphibians - 1893 - 218 pages
...Agassiz concluded that our fresh-water turtles do not lay eggs before the eleventh or fourteenth year. This species does not appear to be employed to any...as savory as that of many species which are highly esteemed. Malaclemys geograpbica, (LeS.). . Geographic Terrapin; Map Tortoise. Testudo geographica,... | |
 | Alice Eliza Ball - Birds - 1916 - 542 pages
...Agassiz concluded that our fresh-water turtles do not lay eggs before the eleventh or fourteenth year. This species does not appear to be employed to any...should not be as savory as that of many species which arc highly esteemed. Malaclemys geographica, (LeS.). Geographic Terrapin; Map Tortoige. Testwlo geographica,... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - Botany - 1892 - 766 pages
...Agassiz concluded that our fresh-water turtles do not lay eggs before the eleventh or fourteenth year. This species does not appear to be employed to any considerable extent aa food, yet there seems to be no reason why its flesh should not be as savory as that of many species... | |
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... this species deposits its eggs earlier in the season than any others of our turtles. At Natchez, Miss., one was found to have laid her eggs as early as the first of June. It may here be stated that Agassiz concluded that our fresh-water turtles do... 