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I WAS informed by Mr. J. H. Duggan that enormous numbers of molluscs had been thrown up on the coast between Southport and Hightown on October 28. They then formed a continuous belt averaging six feet in width and ten inches in depth at the crest, extending nine miles from Southport towards High-town. The majority were, at this time, alive.
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WILLIAMS, G. Severe Mortality of Mactra corallina cinerea (Montagu) off the Lancashire Coast. Nature 144, 1049 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441049b0
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