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- Large sand dollar with holes +
marginal slit Encope emarginata [underlined].
Try to get Palmipes membranaceus [underlined]
a very interesting flattened star.
In afternoon went to the session on
whales + thoroughly enjoyed it.
Papers were by.
Laws on Corpora albicantia
Rund " [on] baleen
Purves on ear plugs
Frazer on breeding season + gestation
Slipper on vascular systems.
Hubbs on gray whale.
July 23 [1958] Plymouth
Took the 9:30 train from Paddington
+ arrived in Plymouth at 2 PM.
Met by Colin (J.A.C. Nicol) who
showed us around a large
part of the town - We visited the oldest
area + then examined an Elizabethan
house of 3 storeys. The furniture was
all of dark oak, much of it of
the design of Dads big cabinet in
the drawing room. Ceiling very
low. Met Dr. [Doctor] F.S. RussellTracy Storer is staying at the Norfolk
Hotel near S [South] Kensington Museum +
finds it satisfactory. 15/. a day double
with bath, B+B.
July 22/58 [1958] London
Spent the morning at the Museum.
Some very good interpretive displays of
structure, relationship + function in
the invertebrates. Variations in polycapods[?]
+ gastropods; variation in thorny oyster;
Shell structure in gastropods; Reproduction
in gastropods showing egg cases of Fusus
opened to show the larvae within; a sketch
of the viviparous Litorina [Littorina]; a specimen
of Vivipara [underlined] to show parent + young
etc.; Feeding in Scaphander [illegible word] mollusca;
Poisonous cones; Ophiuroids [brittle star] showing
viviparous species opened to show
the young, also a form Astrochlamys [underlined]
that copulates; Other displays of opened
urchin to show mouth parts + muscles
in situ; main groups of mollusca with
examples + well coloured outline diagrams
of internal structure. Boring molluscs
The slate pencil urchin in
Heterocentrotus trigonarius [underlined]
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