From: odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca   
      
   In article <1151696726.606132.116120@d30g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
    "Rider"  wrote:   
      
   > years ago (around 1975) I read a story in an old magazine about a   
   > professor who traveled to a pacific island to study a family of giant   
   > snails that he heard of in native legends shortly after WWII.  He ends   
   > up stranded on the island and survives and begins studying the snails   
   > (according to the story, the adults are nearly 10' in diameter).  The   
   > story, (based on his notes and finally witness accounts), tells how he   
   > documents the snails, later is pursued and finally killed by them just   
   > as help arrives.   
   >   
   > The story was in an old magazine (shortly after WWII to perhaps the   
   > 1960's) and was similar to the old life magazines.   
   >   
   > Does anyone else remember this story and have any idea what the   
   > publication was?   
      
   Sorry, no, but I'm reminded of an episode in Hugh Lofting's child-lit   
   classic _The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle_, which was published in the   
   1920s but set in the XIX century. Lofting's snail had a glass shell that   
   could accommodate passengers, and did not eat the Doctor (or anyone else   
   IIRC).   
      
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