GARDEN SNAIL.
FOURTEEN THOUSAND TEETH. LECTURE AT THE MUSEUM. The ordinary garden snail has 14,175 separate teeth. This fact was mentioned by Mr. A. W. B. Powell, conchologist and palaetologist of the Auckland Museum staff, in a lecture on snails at the museum yesterday afternoon. Mr. C. R. Ford presided over a good attendance. A number of lantern slides were used by Mr. Powell to illustrate his lecture. One slide showed the teeth of the ordinary garden snail magnified 4000 times, and another, the carnivorous teeth of the Xew Zealand bush snail. The beauty of snails no larger than a pin's head was clearly shown by other slides. Slugs and snails, explained the lecturer, were brought to Xew Zealand from Great Britain, and the ordinary garden snail was first found in Nelson in IS6I.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 223, 21 September 1931, Page 3
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