Nature Study
Round the Country-side—2
' The Wanderings of Snails '
Richard MORSE
Although snails are usually very unwelcome visitors to our gardens, we may gain at least a little compensation for their depredations by observing their interesting ways. Their wanderings between borders and flower beds, for instance, are by no means aimless wanderings, for by a series of careful watchings at the proper time it is easy to prove that snails have a strange power of finding their way about, even in the darkness.
Snails are, in fact, much more familiar with their immediate surroundings than is commonly believed. Although their sight is of the poorest, they do not easily get lost, and they even show a tenacity of purpose which you would hardly expect to find in such lowly animals. In his talk this afternoon Mr. Richard Morse will tell you of snails which, like the cats he spoke of some time ago, have been able to find their way home in the most mysterious manner.