Soothed by Watching Snails —ln all the complexities of post-war Britain, at least one group of people has found ft “very soothing occupation.” It is snail watching. The Snail Watching Society has 70 members, comprised of stockbrokers, civil servants, lawyers, sailors, and soldiers. They will celebrate their first anniversary today. Requests to join the society are reported to have come from all over Britain, Greece, Spain, the United States, and China. Mr Henniker Heaton, of London, the founder and secretary, declares that the snail" has a “high degree of intelligence, because it puts down its own road in front of it.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 280, 7 September 1946, Page 5
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