Lobster Tale # 8 – Life Underground

Some funny looking “chimneys” down the gully led me to “dig” into the life of Adolphus Schayer, a German in the employee of the Van Diemen’s Company who was an avid collector of invertebrates. A specimen of a burrowing crayfish he sent back to the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin caused a crayfish kerfuffle that has only recently been resolved.

Read about it in FortySouth Tasmania.