Hi Dav

what a hoot - thanks also for the paper - I have a student actually  
working on covering/non-covering echinoids - so very good timing

All the best

Maria

Quoting "Pawson, David" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Something I forgot to mention:
>
> In the early 1970's we were studying the echinoid Lytechinus in  
> Bermuda.  On a very hot day about four of us were snorkeling
> In Harrington Sound, collecting urchins.  Butch, the boat operator  
> from the Bermuda Biological Station, was wearing a pair of shorts  
> and, while we were in the water, he decided to cool down a little.   
> He dived in, swam around for a few minutes, and climbed back into  
> the boat.  As we started back towards the Lab, Butch discovered that  
> he did not have his wallet.  It had fallen out of his pocket when he  
> went swimming.  We returned to the collecting site, and we looked  
> for quite a while, but did not find the wallet.
>  The next day, we returned to the site to do some more collecting.   
> A student immediately found a Lytechinus covered with a
> U.S. $1 bill!  Close by this urchin was Butch's wallet.  All's well  
> that ends well.
>   Other things we found on Bermuda urchins: golf balls, the old  
> aluminium pull-off pop-tops from beer cans, one earring, and, most  
> grotesque - dead echinoid tests.
>
> Cheers, Dave Pawson.
>



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Schools of Medical and Biological Sciences
University of Sydney
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