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IN your issue of December 26, and also in exhibiting his collection of crabs before the Linnean Society, Mr. Pascoe cast some doubt on the function of the two pairs of modified legs of Dromia vulgaris, which are usually supposed to be adapted to the retention of the sponge with which it covers its carapace.
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WEISS, F. Foreign Substances attached to Crabs. Nature 41, 272 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041272a0
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