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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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