Early issues of The Nautilus (mostly in the last two decades of the 19th
Century) were filled with amusing shell-related facts and stories that were
clipped from the main newspapers of the time by editor Henry A. Pilsbry or
sent in by attentive readers. This short story, an excerpt from the Boston
Globe, is one of them:

"Sea Gull Drops Clam on Policeman - The habit of sea gulls to carry clams
in their talons to a considerable height and drop them on a hard surface to
break, so that the bird can feed on the bivalve, nearly proved disastrous
to Abe Loche, a former policeman of Atlantic City, N.J. Loche was walking
alon gthe Boardwalk when one of the gulls flew high above him and dropped
the clam directly on the man's head. He fell and had to be carried into a
nearby drug store for treatment."
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José H. Leal, Ph.D.
Editor, THE NAUTILUS
Since 1886 - A quarterly dedicated to Malacology

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