>>Has anyone read Geerat Vermeij's autobiography "Privileged Hands:
>>A Scientific Life"?
It is certainly a worthwhile book. It also demonstrates the seeming
impossibility of getting printers to publish a semi-popular book on snails
without getting any pictures backwards. The photo with Geerat, his wife,
and daughter in the lab is reversed.
David Campbell
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