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LONDON.
Zoological- Society, April 17.Dr. A. Smith Wood- yard, vice-president, in the chair.E. fleron-Allen: The mussel-fishery and Foraminifera of Esnandes (La Rochelle), and the early work of Alcide dOrbigny. A series of slides was exhibited illustrative of the early studies of Alcide dOrbigny at Esnancles (near La Rochelle), and the mussel-fisheries established.there since the year 1035 The experiments of Prof. W. A. Herdman on the west coast of England were referred to, and those of Prof. A. Meek at Holy Island on the east coast. A further series was showi illustrating some of the notable dOrbignyan species found in the neighbourhood, not recorded from there by dOrbigny in 1826, but recorded from other localities at that date, and from distant seas between 1839 and 1846. A third sefies of sides illustrated welhknown species from the locality which had been recorded and described by earlier authors, but were not apparently identified by dOrbigny from the neighbourhood of La Rochelle.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 99, 199–200 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099199a0
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