Prof. Meisenheimer, an outstanding expert in his field, presents everything worth knowing about the vineyard snail: external appearance, anatomy, physiology, nutrition and lifestyle, mating, and embryonic development. The Publishing House of Sciences publishes historical literature by both well-known and lesser-known scientific authors. This makes works that have long been out of print accessible again to interested readers. The present book is a reprint of the original edition from 1912.