>Hi Ross,
>
>Several years ago, a student at Brown University, in Providence,
>wrote his (I do believe) Doctoral Thesis on the lowly L. littorea.
>He intended to prove that the snail was responsible for our rocky
>coasts, since it grazed off all the vegetation that would have
>helped soils to adhere to the rocks.  A short blurb made the paper,
>so I wrote to him.  If I can find his reply, I will send it on.
>(Don't hold your breath.  It might be faster to write to Brown
>University directly.  Presumably, they are better organized than I
>am.)
>
>Kay

Hoo boy... there are crackpots under every rock, it seems.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
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