Descrizione

Le Kram, 1951. Single leaf (26.7 x 20.9 cm). Typed, with hand-written signature. = Letter by the French/Tunisian oyster farmer Antoine Aloiso, to the French marine biologist, ichthyologist, parasitologist, and director of the Service des Pêches Coloniales, Robert Philippe F. Dollfus (1887-1976). Dollfus was a son of the malacologist Gustave Frédérique Dollfus (co-author of the famous Les mollusques marins du Rousillon), and was interested in Mollusca himself. Paul Henri Fischer wrote his necrologie in the Journal de Conchyliologie 114(3-4), p. 131. In this letter, Aloiso asks Dollfus about the distribution of a certain crustacean (copepod) oyster parasite of which the alledged occurrence hampered his business. Dollfus noted, in ink, that he replied on the 12th of April, 1951. Weak horizontal and vertical fold, otherwise very good.