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Re: Book "Privileged Hands"
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David Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:23:49 -0400
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>>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
 
"Old Seashells"
 
Department of Geological Sciences
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug

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