Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the teredo navalis, and limnoria tenebrans, as at present existing in certain localities in the British Islands' by William Thompson Thompson, Vice President of the Natural History Society of Belfast, shares his observations on the shipworm and the short-palped cranefly. Subject: Mollusks / Entomology Received 12 April 1834. Read 19 June 1834. Communicated by J G [John George] Children. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Observations on the Teredo navalis and Limnoria terebrans, as at present existing in certain localities of the British Islands'. April 1834