Hello and welcome to another working from home episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly

podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin,

Anna Tajinsky and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

Starting with fact number one, that's my fact.

My fact this week is before hermit crabs were called hermit crabs, there was a hermit called

crab.

This is a man called Roger Crab, whose dates were 1621 to 1680 and he was an English soldier,

he was a Habadashir, he was a herbal doctor and author and a hermit and he predates the

naming of hermit crabs.

But did he live in a kind of shell which he would periodically exchange for a very slightly

larger shell like a hermit crabs named after him?

Well, hermit crabs I believe are named after hermits generally but I don't think he was

such a famous hermit that he sort of defined a whole species.

He was semi-famous right?

Isn't there a thought that he, so he was a hatter and there's a thought that Lewis

Carol's madhatter was maybe based on him because he was also a really quite mad.

Yeah, I couldn't find anything that sort of truly links that other than people saying

it was thought.

Did you get anywhere with that?

No, like people were writing about him a lot in the 19th century when Lewis Carol was

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