RARE SOUTHPAW

Evening Star, Issue 24007, 4 October 1941, Page 3

RARE SOUTHPAW

Before digging in his garden recently Royal, Stewart was merely an inhabitant of Berkeley, California. But a few minutes later he was the man who had found a left-handed snail 1 Immediately, 31 r Stewart reported Ins discovery to the Academy of Sciences, and the second “ Helix Aspersa,” or common garden snail, of this type ever found in California, was taken to an exhibit case, where it is reported to be doing nicely. Just for the record, a left-handed snail is one whose spiral winds up counter clockwise, or, in other words, he wears his spiral on his west side when he is going north. The next tune you find a snail chewing away at one of your horticultural prizes you may observe that, starting from the centre, the spiral winds clockwise and appears on the right side of the snail. If this is not the case phone the Academy of Sciences immediately, and they will happy to accept the specimen as a scientific curiosity, and your name will be recorded in their iSnail Sleuthers’ Hall of Fame.— ‘Christian Science Monitor.’