Makes you wonder how often other publications get pictures
(non-shell-related) reversed. If there isn't a shell, or writing,
or something in it to differentiate left from right. It happens
constantly!
 
 
>>>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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