# The writer reports that sand from a ship's ballast, full of shells from Durban, had been dumped on the beach near Williamstown.

> Cite as: PLOT record c/RC4W-05 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1901), reported by source

- **Address:** c/RC4W-05, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/RC4W-05)
- **Value:** 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. Checked by a person.
- **Open questions:** None open
- **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.18, 1901-1902 (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 71, victoriannatural18fiel, leaf 85, printed page 71 <https://archive.org/details/victoriannatural18fiel>
- **The snippet in PLOT:** <https://www.plot.eco/s/YP9Q-AT?snippet=6b682afe-58b2-483c-9e45-e069505a85bb>
- **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.
- **Editions:** october-26th-release
- **How we found this:** 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.
  - 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): Ship's ballast sand with South African shells dumped on the beach near Williamstown.

## History
- Version 1 (this version): first published version

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Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/RC4W-05.json
Cite as: PLOT record c/RC4W-05 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1901), reported by source