From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 263
Summary:
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.
Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.
Has found a frog with bivalve attached to hind leg.
According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.