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The Resting Position of Oysters

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As your correspondent, Mr. J. T. Cunningham, expresses a doubt as to the evidence on which the current belief of conchologists is founded that oysters rest on the convex valve, I beg to inclose a cluster of three, brought to me among others from Torbay this morning. They are all attached by their convex valves, and confirm the descriptions of Messrs. Woodward, Jeffreys, and Huxley.

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HUNT, A. The Resting Position of Oysters. Nature 33, 8 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033008a0

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