Oncomelania hupensis formosana collected from the field at Changhua, Taiwan, were used throughout the shedding experiments. They were reared in either 13 cm clay saucers with mud mixture and water (WAGNER & CHI, 1959) or in 20 cm glass bowls.

[H]e was in the drawing-room before any of us; and I heard him at the piano while I was yet looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcaroles and drinking songs Italian and German by the score.

In a footnote, these admirers will often bemoan Agee as a Renaissance or at least ambidextrous artist in an age of specialization, a vast and turbulent ocean syphoned off through a garden hose; not just a novelist manque but also a frustrated […]

The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.