Turtle
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Turtle. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
Important: Safety Warning This page states that certain wild plants are safe to eat. Its identifications and edibility claims are more than a century old and in some cases simply wrong, and deadly look-alikes exist for many edible species. Never eat a wild plant on the strength of this text. In addition, this page describes collecting wild birds' eggs, shooting birds for specimens, or similar practices. These activities are now illegal under wildlife-protection laws, including the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and they contributed to the decline of the very species described. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. in zoölogy, the popular name for any species of the Cheloniidæ. They may be distinguished by their long, compressed fin-shaped, non-retractile feet, with the toes inclosed in a common skin, from which only one or two claws project. The carapace is broad and much depressed so that when these animals are on shore, and are turned over on their backs, they cannot regain the natural position. Large interspaces between the extremities of the ribs, and HAWK'S-BILL TURTLE portions of the sternum always remain cartilaginous, so that the carapace is far lighter than in the tortoises. The head is large and globose, and cannot be retracted within the shell; it is covered above with symmetrical horny shields, and the jaws are armed with sharp, horny sheaths. Turtles are marine LONG-NECKED TURTLE animals; their pinnate feet and light shell render them excellent swimmers. They sometimes live at a great distance from land, to which they periodically return to deposit their soft-shelled eggs (from 100 to 250 in number) in the sand. They are found in all the inter-tropical seas, and sometimes travel into the tem- SKELETON OF TURTLE perate zones. The flesh and eggs of all the species are edible, though the Indian turtles are less valuable in this respect than those of the Atlantic. The most highly valued of the family is the green turtle (Chelonia viridis), from which turtle soup is made. It attains a large size, sometimes from six to seven feet long, with a weight of from 700 to 800 pounds. The popular name has no refthe carapace, erence to the color of which is dark olive, passing into dingy prized white, but to the green fat highly by epicures. The edible turtle of the East Indies (C. virgata) is also highly , at prized; but, according to Tennent certain seasons they "are avoided as poisonous, and some lamentable inwas stances are recorded of death which ascribed to their use." The hawk's-bill turtle (C. imbricata), which yields tortoiseshell, is also prized; but the flesh of the loggerhead turtle and of the leatherback is of little value. In printing, the segment plate in which is locked up in a type-revolving a form wider machine. The column-rules are at the top than at the bottom, to hold the type firmly, and are secured by screws. stick has a series of The edge of the side beveled projections, and is pressed against the form by having simiby a piece and worked by larly beveled projections a screw.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
. See Tortoise