PLOT c/RC4W-05 · version 1 of 1
The writer reports that sand from a ship's ballast, full of shells from Durban, had been dumped on the beach near Williamstown.
Mr. F. E. Grant mentioned that a large quantity of sand, containing a quantity of shells of various kinds, brought as ballast in a ship from Durban, had been thrown out on the beach near Williamstown, and conchologists would therefore need to be very careful not to confuse these with the Victorian species.Historical passage
About Williamstown
- Kind
- Reported by source
- Who said it
- Reported by community
- Period
- 1901
- Checked
- Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification.
- Open questions
- None openOpen questions and challenges are counted publicly; their text is published when they are resolved.
- Where it says so
- The Victorian naturalist, v.18, 1901-1902 (on archive.org) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria) · View in PLOT — p. 71, victoriannatural18fiel, leaf 85, printed page 71
- How they know
- accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural18fiel, leaf 85, printed page 71
- Limitations
- A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- Framework targets
- none linked
- Editions
- october-26th-release
How we found this
- In short
- Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Changes people made", in historical_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
- Protocol
- accounts-core 0.1.0
- Question
- Changes people made
- Channel
- historical_archives
- Query
- Williamstown | Williams Town | Williams-town | Point Gellibrand | Gellibrand's Point | Gellibrand Point | Jawbone | Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural18fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
- Screening
- include (meets criteria), proposed by AI: Ship's ballast sand with South African shells dumped on the beach near Williamstown.
- Extraction
- claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1
- Note
- accounts-core run williamstown-2026-10-23: Internet Archive texts (Victorian Naturalist v.1-37, Letters from Victorian Pioneers) and ALA specimen facets. Trove and BHL blocked: they need API keys.
Cite as: PLOT record c/RC4W-05 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1901), reported by source
History (1)
- Version 1 (shown here): first published version