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Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/57/42
TitleNewspaper cutting on mutilated starfish
Date[mid 19th century]
Description Of ItemNewspaper cutting on mutilated starfish. The experiments of Sir John Dalyell are mentioned, discovering a starfish’s regenerative powers. Details fishermen’s historic aversion to starfish noting that they now cast them out to perish after discovering they are capable of regeneration, rather than tearing them into multiple pieces.
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