Thinks there is no particular interest in the abnormality in question.
Also CD has looked at several flowers and believes WDC may be mistaken in believing there is a rudimentary anther cell.
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Thinks there is no particular interest in the abnormality in question.
Also CD has looked at several flowers and believes WDC may be mistaken in believing there is a rudimentary anther cell.
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.]
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s 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.