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WHILST walking along the Birkdale sands from Ainsdale to Southport on the Lancashire coast on Nov. 3, I noticed that immense numbers of small molluscs had recently been washed ashore, and as definite observations on environmental mortality are important in connexion with the adaptations of a species to its environment, such occurrences are worthy of record.
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ORTON, J. Severe Environmental Mortality among Abra ( = Syndosmya) alba, Donax vittatus, and other Organisms off the Lancashire Coast. Nature 124, 911 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124911a0
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