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major. I had a look around and found all these wonderful fossil snails in all their variety. The geology of
Bermuda had already been worked out by then and I thought these snails would become a pretty good PhD."
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Bermuda under the Protected Species Act (2003) and a Protected Species Recovery Plan was published for it in 2010 by the Bermuda Government, Department of Conservation Services.
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