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WITH reference to the review of the “Guide to the Mollusca” in NATURE of July 21, p. 93, may I be allowed to point out that our rather cautious statement, “A species of Helix has been said to tolerate a temperature of 120° C.,” was based on Pictet's paper “De l'emploi méthodique des basses températures en biologie” (Arch. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Genève (3) xxx., 1893, pp. 293–314). The reviewer's remark about the scientific names of the pearl mussel and the pearl oyster scarcely makes it clear that we are simply keeping to the names used by the late Mr. E. A. Smith in 1908, Margaritana margaritifera for the mussel and Margaritifera margaritifera for the oyster. I hope that the other errors he has discovered are not more serious than these.
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REGAN, C. "Guide to the Mollusca". Nature 112, 166 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112166b0
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