Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
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Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]
Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.
Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.
Has found a frog with bivalve attached to hind leg.
Will send shell by post to British Museum. Will prepare article for Nature [see 13696].
Shell smashed by careless servant. May have been Cyclas cornea. Will send letter to Nature.
According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.
Will send letter to Nature about shell [attached to beetle]. Will use old name of Cyclas.