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Hand fed substance 80 Shasta Suede dull coated paper. In Memoriam Ruth Sanborn Long March 16, 1988 Mon died after a short illnesstoday. Shewillbe buriedin the Sanborn family plot within a few days, in Redlands, California. Sheis survived by two sons, Steven and Kevin, and one daughter, Susan. We all miss her very much. Copyright © 1988 On the Tongan Reefs Neiafu, Vava’u Island, Kingdom of Tonga. Bob Purtymun 021086 Dive #2; 18.41.4S 174.01.6W Scuba 3-20 feet. 125 minutes. In the channel between Mala and Kapa Islands. Near the small island in the center of the channel. After lunch Popiano moved the skiff over to the western side of the out- cropping of coral. It’s really a little island as there were a few coconut palms and an assortment of tropical plants growing in the sparse soil that clung to the cracks and crevices above high tide line. In Hawaii I have seen the locals plant a banana plant on solid rock by throwing a shovel full of dirt on the roots and then covering this with rocks. Wind blown silt and dcad vegetation will accumulate over and around the rocks to form a pocket of soil. The banana will thrive and produce fruit in about 18 to 24 months in areas on the islands where there is ample rainfall. But, back to shelling. The bottom around the island was hard coral with scattered cracks and crevices filled with siltysand. There were numerous dead coral slabs and blocks. Some in large piles. Here and there we found live coral heads some in clumps of 4 or 5 species of coral, and 8 to 10 feet in diameter. The area was alive with long-spined black sea urchins, a fact that was brought painfully to my attention when I bumped my left knee on one. The old jogging suit that I was wearing to protect me from the sharp coral was pinned neatly to my knee. After the dive was over I found that I had acquired 28 purplish tatoo marks. This was quite painful at first but after a couple of hours the pain subsided and the marks disappeared after a few days. This dive did not produce any Conus floccatus, nor any thing very rare or valuable. I collected 32 species of gastropods and 4 species of bivalves. Most abundant were the cones with 8 species collected. My best find was a Turis crispa crispa (Lamarck, 1816). W.O. Cernohorsky in Marine Shells of the Pacific, Volume II describes the habitat of this mollusc as follows. "The species is moderately common and extends westward from the Fiji Islands into the Indian Ocean." My shell is only 73 x 15mm and not as dark in color as the few others I have seen. However, it may be an eastward range extension. Next month - Hurricane!!! 021086 Dive #2 18.41.4S X 174.01.6W Scuba, 125 minutes, 3 to 20 feet. In the channel between Kapa and Nuku Islands. Out near the little island in the center of the channel. Hard coral bottom, cracks and crevices filled with silty sand. Numerous dead coral slabs and blocks, some live coral heads. ; (continued next page) 4 S&SL 2063) On the Tongan Reefs (continued) S&SL 20(3):5. GASTROPOD 1 Conus omaria #4414 C. sponsalis #4415 C. capitalis #4416 C. moreleti #7498 C. striatus #7158 C. mamoreus nn. C. flavidus nn C. frigidus nn Cypraea eglantina nn C. helvola #4390 C. cameola #4389 is imbricaria vanikorensis #12253 Vexillum exasperatum #4412 V. cadaverosum #4411 V. pacificum #4410 Chicoreus rosarius nn 55x385mm & 68x44mm Turris crispa nn 73x15mm 1 Peristernia incarnata #4394 3 P. ustulata #12750 2 ?Pseudostomatella sp. #4403 4 Euchelus atratus #4391 1 Melampus castaneus #4392 1 Cerithium nesioticum #4393 2 ?Certihium sp. #15011 3 Engina alveolata #4409 2 Pyrene deshayesii #4408 2 ?Pupa sp. #4407 2 Prodita iostomus #4406 1 Strombus rugosus #4405 (Juv.) 2 Maculotriton bracteatus #4404 1 Cymatium aquatilis nn 1 Bursa granularis #4413 BIVALVE 3 Loconcha castrensis nn 6 Chlamys squamosa #4395-4400 1 Tridacna squamosa #4401 (very small) 1 bivalve sp. #4402 > 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 2 1 pananeeanndys 5 or) as Nana at FAD 0 4 09! i ay Tridacna squamosa (Lamarck). iad} ‘ ot i a ; Hie ae a W/ UH) F . \ Tridacna squamosa, on the inside (Lamarck) -Fleld Notes - sest 20(3):6. Turbo & Modulus In some areas at depths of 40 feet or more on Florida’s Gulf Coast, the predominant algal coloring is pink, and in a sand/rubble area the whole bottom can appear rosy. Many organisms are covered and thus colored by this algae, but several mollusks actually take on the ground color. Notable among them are Modulus modulus Linnzus, 1758 (which I was surprised to find at all at that depth), and Turbo castanea Gmelin, 1791. Both these species are commonly found in shallow bay grass beds and are usually brownish or greenish in such habitats. 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Inst. 17, Art. VII:58-60, pl 13. | ARGONAUTA CRACILIS: sp. Art. VIl.—Description of a new Species of Paper Nautilus (Argonauta gracilis), By T. W. Kirk. [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th July, 1884.) Plate XIII. Tuat we have in New Zealand two species of the beautiful ‘‘ Paper Nautilus,” so called on account of the extreme delicacy of its shell, I have for some years felt sure; but although I have examined numerous speci- mens, I have not until lately been able to obtain a sufficiently good series of each form to justify the creation of a new species, and am now indebted to Mr. C. H. Robson of Te Mahia, who had himself noticed the difference, for the loan of several examples which supply the links required to render the evidence complete. The larger series examined, the individuals of which range from 13-9 inches across, undoubtedly belong to A. tuberculata, Shaw. The description given is defective, yet 2 comparison of the shell with drawings by Chenu, Reeve, and other authors, is conclusive. I propose to amend the description as follows :—‘t Shell compressed, sides with transverse plications which are longitudinally tuberculiferous.” Aperture nearly square posteriorly, margin much thickened, and the angles Original DeSCriIPTION ses: 20:12. produced outwards so as to form pointed wing-like processes, projecting beyond the sides of the shell. Keels two, with compressed tubercles, white, brown on the spire, where also the keel tubercles are blackish-brown. What I now consider to be a new species is distinguishable from the foregoing at a glance. The whole shell has a more graceful and regular outline, and is much more fragile looking, the aperture is narrower and rounded, especially posteriorly, there is no sign whatever of wing-like expansions, indced the sides have a graceful sweep where the angle occurs n A. tuberculata. The transverse processes are finer and more numerous, consequently the tubercles forming the keels are smaller, the space between the keels is much less. Some of these differences have been noticed before, but were thought to be probably due to age;, that such is not the case will be apparent to all who examine the specimens on the table. A shell containing the animal having been sent to the Canterbury Museum by Mr. Robson, Dr. von. Haast very kindly granted the loan of them, and at once forwarded them for my examination. The animal proves to belong to the same species as a specimen from the Chatham Islands, described by Professor Hutton on p. 2 of the Catalogue of Marine Mollusca (1873), under the name of A. tuberculata. The specimen now under consideration was procured at Portland Island, is somewhat larger than the Chatham Island one, and shows some slight differences, but ouly such as are frequently found between members of the same species. Such being the case, I cannot do better than quote Professor Hutton’s description. ‘“4nimal.—Body oblong, rounded behind, smooth, spotted with violet: eyes large, prominent; siphuncle united to the base of the arms by a lateral membrane; arms tapering, except the dorsal pair, which are palmate at the end, these are the shortest, the next pair to them the longest, and the others graduated ; the lowest pair are keeled on the outside; membrane small, all the arms equally webbed; cups large, less than their own diameter apart, in two rows, with a single row of rather small cups round the mouth.” To which he adds the following remark :—‘‘ As the. shell of this animal was not obtained, I refer it doubtfully to this species, as it differs from Dr. Gray’s description.” It is satisfactory that conclusive evidence is now foviheaming and that this animal with its exquisitely beantiful shell is to enjoy specific distinc- tion. I would therefore suggest for this latest addition to the fleet, the name of Aryunauta yracilis. Publication Notes - sesu 20¢9):13. Ss = = = AG PES EZ = el = = = = = Barnett, J.L. 1988. Land Snails of the Mountains of Northern Luzon. Hawaiian Shell News 34(3):9, 3 photos. [Ryssofa dvilja, Hemiglypta semperl, Ryssota sp.} Bertsch, Hans 1987. Sea Slug Sex. Environment Southwest, (517):16-17, 3 clr, 1 bw photo. ee lugubris, Aplysia californica, A. vaccaria, Bajaeolis bertschi, Chromodoris lochi, Cuthona livae Bradner, H. 1988. More on Easter Island Cypraea cernica. Hawaiian Shell News 34(3):7. Burch, B.L. 1988. Mytilus Aquaculture. Hawalian Shell News 34(3):5. [M. edulis, M. californianus] Collins, B. 1988. Cairns Area-Terebrids. Newsletter Cairns Shell Club (36):1-3, 1 clr photo. [80+ spp.] Costa, F.H.A. 1987. Notas sobre os moluscos bentdnicos do recife da Coroa Vermelha, Bahia. Informativo S B M (73):4-8. [gastropods, pelecypods & opisthobranchs included] da Motta, A.J. 1988. Look-alike Sympatric Cones Can Be Different Species. Hawaiian Shell News 34(3):7, 1 photo. [Conus betulinus, C. figulinus, C. glaucus, C. loroisii, C. arbornatalis, C. castaneofasciatus, C. bengalensis, C. amadis] Fainzilber, M. 1988. Wierd and Wonderful Tiger Cowries. Hawailan Sheil News 34(3):11-12, 3 photos. [Cypraea tigris} Green, F. & R. Keech 1986. The Coral Seas of Muscat. London, 106p., clr pls, figs, cr4to cloth, dj. [Excellent coverage of the corals along the coasts of Oman. inciudes mollusks and invertebrates associated with the coral reefs. Opisthobranch photos} Kershaw, R.C. 1987. Redescriptions of Cysiopelta petierd] Tate, 1881 and Cysfopelta bicolor Petierd and Hedley, 1909 (Pulmonata: Cystopeltidae}. J. Malac. Soc. Aust. 8:51-70, figs 1-33. Lal, K.¥. 1987. Marine Gastropods of Taiwan (1). Talwan Museum, 50p., 22 clr pls, 8vo soft cover. [Chinese; English & Latin names; excellent photo plates] Lal, K.Y. 1987. Marine Gastropods of Taiwan (2). Taiwan Museum, 118p., 80+ cir photos & pls, 8vo soft cover. [Chinese; English & Latin names; excellent color plates; mentions Opisthobranchs} Lampreil, K. 1987. Spiny Oyster Shells of the World. Bathurst, Australia, 84p., 37 cir pls, cr4to cloth, dj. [Accurate listings and excellent photos for the group]. Lewis, C.P. 1988. How the Conchological Wheel Turns. Hawaiian Shell News 34(3)8-9. [Conus dauillel, Cc. consors, C. magus, C. ochroleucus, C. pilkeyi etc.] Miller, M.C., Willan, R.C. 1986. A review of the New Zealand arminacean nudibranchs (Opisthobranchia: Arminacea). N. Zealand J. Zool. 13:377-408, figs. 1-19, 8vo. [11 spp. arminaceans] Narchi, W. 1987. Aspectos ecolégicos e adaptativos de alguns bivalves do litoral paulistas. Informativo S B M (71):9-12, clr plt. [Anomalocardia brasiliana, Iphigenia brasiliensis, Tivela mactroides, Donax hanleyanus] Narchi, W. 1987. Aspectos ecoldgicos e adaptativos de alguns bivalves do litoral paulistas (continuagao). Informativo S B M (72):9-12, clr pit. [Anomalocardia brasiliana, Iphigenia brasiliensis, Mesodesma mactroides, Tivela mactroides, Donax hanleyanus] Narchi, W. 1987. Aspectos ecoldgicos e adaptativos de alguns bivalves do litoral paulistas (continuagao). Informativo S B M (73):9-12, fig. 1. [Anomalocardia brasiliana, Iphigenia brasiliensis, Chione Intapurpurea, Nassarius sp., Terebra cinerea, T. mactroides, Donax hanleyanus + others] Newman, L. 1988. Holoplanktonic Gastropods from Great Barrier Reef Waters, Australia. Hawaiian Shell News 34(3):5. [Thecosomata, Gymnosomata, Heteropoda] Parkinson, B., J. Hemmen & K. Groh 1987. Tropical Landshells of the World. Wiesbaden, 279p., 77 clr pls, ‘64 clr figs, 4to cloth. [excellent color Illustrations; subspecies used throughout]. Reid, R.G.B. & D.G. Brand 1987. Observations on Australian Solemyidae. J. Malac. Soc. Austral. 8:41-50, figs 1-5. [Solemya velesiana, S. togata, S. .velum, S. australis, etc.] Réckel, D. 1988. On the Identity of Conus connectens A. Adams, 1855. Hawaiian Shell News 34(3):1, 4; 6 photos. Richards, A. 1988. Another Stranger inthe Anclilides Complex. Hawaiian Shel News 34(3):11, 2 photos. [Mitra deynzeri, M. dondani, M. ancillides, M. ustulata) on the DRIFTLINE_._ . sesc 2evt from Canada Recently, there has been a great deal in the media about raising snails commercially. The agriculture departments in Canada (Federal and Provincial) look upon snails as agricultural pests and they are discouraging any interest In raising these. tam trying to make contact with someone in the USA who can advise me regarding the commercial production of snails and any Information pertinent to production. -- B.J. Bendi, M.D., 750 West Broadway, Suite 608, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V5Z 1H5. from Sacramento, CA Melissa Barbour Is living and working in Sacramento. Not many branchs but siill interested. Her address Is: 1381 Tuggle Way, Sacramento, CA 95831. Address Needed Chris Kitting has moved from Texas, | believe back to Central California. Please send mea current address. from Dubai Hope you are all well and enjoying the summer season. [August 1987] All is well here and as the temperature has dropped from 46°C to 39°C with the effects of the cooling shamals (winds) and a dust-haze that has blotted out the glare of the sun for the past few days. 1! have been tempted out to the East coast at Fujainah. This has gained some Publicity of late with the mine incidents. Hasn't stopped me shelling though and all inall life is as ever, If a little on the tense side. You should have received acoupie of articles that | put together along with some slides. | will put a few more together for you — just let me know. There are some interesting sites witha variety of marine life that is very poorly understood (not least of all by me!) Acouple of good finds were a live Cypraea pulchra (the first one | have found here but not the first recorded) It lives under small branching coral heads. Along with C. arabica/grayana, C. nebrites, C. caurica (large darkform) C. gracilis, C. tindus, C. felina, C. fabula etal. Also anice Homalocantha anatomica (rare here) and as yet unidentified Mitra (| think the 3rd one that | cannot seem to put a name to since | arrived.) We had ashort holiday in the Maldives which was strictly for diving/photography. Did not collect much in the way of shells as they are quite hot on the conservation of resources. | did however get a lot of photographs of marine life. Some turned out very well and should you want some together with a few tips on holidays there as well as what the underwater world holds in store for the interested adventurer, | will gladly oblige. -AJ."Tony* Woodward, Al Habtoor Motors, PO Box 9879, Dubai, U.AE. from New Zealand While in Fiji | prepared a couple of check-lists of the shells of Rotuma Is. and the Lau Group for the Fiji Museum. Because of the coup there, this institution has been forced to halt Its publishing programme so | wondered If you might be interested In these. Illustrations for these canbe provided. My bookonthe shells of Fijl, Samoa & Tonga Is at the publishers. Will let you know when it is due out. — Brian Parkinson, 244 Hillsborough Road, Mt. Roskill, Auckland 4, New Zealand. In Memoriam Lois Rehder, February, 1988. Wife of Dr. Harald Rehder and a strong supporter of malacology. from Sierra Vista, AZ Panamic Specimen Shells has been purchased by VirginiaUpton. Sheishandling specimens from West Mexico to Ecuador. -— Panamic Specimen Shells, Virginia Upton, 2500 Meadowlark Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. from Germany Our new fand snail book is now available directly from Germany and from booksellers around the world. —- Christa Hemmen, Verlag, Buchandlung und Antiquariat, Griliparzerstr. 22, D-6200 Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany. from New York Dr. William K. Emerson, Curator of Molluscs, Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, has been elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. Last June, the AMU elected himas an Honorary Life Member of the American Malacological Union. from Seattle, WA Ron Shimek, 11248 Military Road South, Seattle, WA 98168, (206) 243-8354. Just a short note saying | appreciated getting acopy.of the Opisthobranch the other day. | suppose scaphopods, my major interest of late, don't qualify for newsy items in a newsletter of such title, but they really don’t fit elsewhere either. Anyway, my first article on scaphs will be out In the January Veliger. Will send you a reprint whenever they arrive, hope that qualifies me for continued mailings. | am editor of the Scaphopod chapter In the upcoming multivolume treatise, “Microscopic Anatomy of the Invertebrates,” and this along with the rest of my work on scaphs from Bamfield is keeping me pretty busy. Have been unable to do as much as rapidly as | want on either my sclence or my photography, but such is life | guess. Volunteer Divers Needed sesu 20@).15. An underwater archaeology expedition - ESS WASHINGTON to Fort Vancouver on the Columbia 25), River is seeking volunteer scuba diversin - the summer of 1988. Divers will search for trade items lost during transactions by the Hudson’s Bay Company. ee _ . Columbia River Pas FS Sey \ PACIFIC OCEAN : 2 4 PR aed aon Historians and archaeologists often : pain jokingly refer to the Hudson’s Bay ; Company (HBC) as "Here Before God." Pe OREGON And, in reality, the Hudson’s Bay Company organization was an integral part of the Euro-American expansion intothewest. While expanding their own financial capabilities, the Company provided safe hostelry to travelers, as well as the only source of supplies to settlers in the region, located in what is now Washington State (at its border with Oregon). Bricks, tableware, dry goods -- so much of what homesteaders needed -- could be obtained at Fort Vancouver. Many of the items supplied by the Fort can be identified through artifacts that have been archaeologically excavated from the interior stockade area. They are the remains of what was left behind by settlers, and don’t give a clear picture of everything the HBC provided. The dock area below the Fort, however, was the Columbia River entrance onto North American soil for almost everything that was supplied by the HBC during its first year of occupation at thislocation. Many of the artifacts from this underwater archaeological site remain whole, in contrast to the artifacts excavated onshore. Product containers dropped overboard from boats or off the dock itself can be salvaged more thana century later with their contents still intact. During World WarI, a much larger wharf was built over the area once used by the HBC. The foundation of this twentieth century structure acted to protect the early nineteenth century artifacts from the current of the Columbia River. In the summer of 1987, the area surrounding the Hudson’s Bay dock location was explored by divers. At the conclusion of their diving season, many artifacts dating from World War I had been recovered, and the first indications of an HBC stratum had just been found. Because the docking area used from 1829-1860 has now been exposed, the risk to the integrity of this stratum has multiplied significantly. A Foundation for Field Research team will help preserve the archaeological record by remapping the area after winter storms pass, collect artifacts by units, and initiate museum accessioning through both field and museum laboratory methods. These artifacts, after proper cataloguing, will help to expand the understanding of the position of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the history of the Northwest. Volunteer Divers Needed (continued) sast 20(3):16. Expedition members must be certified scuba divers in order to recover artifacts from the underwater dock site. A grid system will be placed over the underwater site, and an airlift will be used to bring up the artifacts and soil to a recovery net floating onthe surface. Recording techniques will be exacting, and may allowfor only one dive per day, although two dives may be possible at times. A safety diver will be above water at all times. 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Yochelson, U.S. National Museum, E-317, Washington, DC 20560 Donald Robert Young, 4115 McKean Dr., Houston, TX 77080 Graham A Young, Department of Geology, Univ. New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, CANADAESB 5A3 Jean T. Young, Union Inti Oil Div., PO Box 7600, Los Angeles, CA 90051 Jeremy Rupert Young, Royal School of Mines, Dept of Geology, Prince Consort Rd., London, S. Kensington, England SW7 2BP Kelth Young, Dept Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 Robert Charles Young, 1221 NW 40th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73118 The Good Old Days S&SL 20(3):20. from The Cambridge Natural History. Mollusca. 1895. Prices given for Shells. — Very high prices have occasionally been given for individual specimens, particularly about thirty or forty years ago, when the mania for collecting was at its height. In those days certain families, such as the Volutidae, Conidae, and Cypraeidae, were the especial objects of a collector’s ardour, and he spared no expense to make his set of the favourite genus as complete as possible. Thus at Stevens’ auction-rooms in Covent Garden, on 21st July 1854, one specimen of Conus cedo nulli fetched £9: 10s., and another £16, a C. omazeus 16 guineas, C. victor £10, and C. gloria maris, the greatest prize of all, £43: ls. At the Vernéde sale, on 14th Dec. 1859 two Conus omaicus fetched £15 and £22, anda C. gloria maris £34. At the great Dennison sale, in April 1865, the Conidae fetched extravagant: prices, six specimens averaging over £20 apiece. Conus cedo nulli went for £18 and £22, C. omaicus for £12, C. malaccanus for 10 guineas (this and one of the cedo nulli being the actual specimens figured in Reeve’s Conchologia Iconica), C. cervus for £19 and C. gloria maris for £42. On 9th May 1866 a Cypraea Broderipit was sold at Stevens’ auction- rooms for £138, and at the Dennison sale a Cypraea princeps fetched £40, and C. guttata £42. The Volutidae, although not quite touching these prices, have yet done fairly well. Mr. Dennison’s Voluta fusiformis sold for £6: 1ds., V. papillaris for £5, V. cymbiola for £5: 1ds., V. reticulata for eight guineas, and two specimens of the rarest of all Volutas, V. festiva, for £14 and £16, both being figured in the Conchologia. At the same sale, two unique specimens of Oniscia Dennisoni fetched L£1T and £18 respectively, and; at the Vernéde sale, Ancillaria Vernédei was bought for £6: a and Voluta Biperaia for £1: 10s. | A unique specimen of a recent Pleurotomaria (quoyana F. and B.) was purchased by Miss de Burgh in 1878 for 25 guineas, and another species of the same genus (adansoniana Cr. and F.), of extraordinary size and beauty, i is now offered for sale for about £100. Bivalves have never fetched quite such high prices as uni- valves, but some of the favourite and showy genera have gone near to rival them. On 22nd June 1869, at Stevens’, Pecten solaris fetched £4:5s., P. Reevii £4:8s., and Cardita varia 5 guineas. Mr. Dennison’s specimens of Pecten subnodosus sold for £7, of Corbula Sowerbyi for £10,o0f Pholadomya candida for £8 and £13, while at the Vernéde sale a Chama damicornis fetched £7. Calendar 1988 MARCH Sanibel Shell Fair, March 3-6. Contact: Sanibel-Captiva Shell Ciub, P.O. Box 355, Sanibel, FL 33957. Marco Island Shell Show, March 9-10, Marco Is., FL. Contact: Dolly Bergman, 58 N. Collier BI., Gulfview 1503, Marco Island, FL 33937, (813) 642-6595. : Northeastern Section GSA, March 9-12. Portland, ME. Contact: PRI, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850. Treasure Coast Shell Show, March 19-20, Stuart, FL. Contact: Treasure Coast Sheil Club, c/o Bertrez Bond, 99 Yacht Club Place, Tequesta, FL 33458. AAPG & SEPM Annual Meetings, March 20- 23, Houston, TX. Central Florida Shell Show, March 25-27, Orlando, FL. Contact: Dave Green, 5883 Pitch Pine Dr., Orlando, FL 32819, (305) 345-0286. APRIL Greater Georgia Shell Show, April 8-10, Atlanta, GA. Contact: Henry Close, 403 Ansley Villa Dr., Atlanta, GA 30324. (404) 892-6744. St. Louis Shell Show, April 22-24, St. Louis, MO. Contact: George Karleskint, 2007 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, MO 63104, (314) 865- 0656. M.A.P.S. (Mid-American Paleontology Society) - National Fossil Exposition X, April 22-24, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL. Contact: Gilbert Norris, 2623 34th Ave., Ct., Rock Island, IL 61201. (309) 786-6505. Long tsland Shell Show, April 29 - May 1, Freeport, NY. Contact: John & Vi Greenlaw, 5 Etna Lane, Dix Hills, NY 11746, (516) 421-5235. MAY Geological Association of Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, _ Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists - Joint Annual Meeting, May 22-25, St. Johns, Newfoundland. Contact: John Fleming, PO Box 13577, Postal Station A, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 4B8 or phone 709- 576-2768. JUNE American Malacological Meeting, June 19-24, Charleston, SC. Radisson Francis Marion Hotel. Symposia: “Applications of Nucleic Acid Techniques to Molluscan Systematics," "Systematics and Evolution of Non-marine Mollusks" and “History of Malacology." Contact: Richard E.. : Petit, PO. Box 30, N. Myrtle Beach, SC 29582, - (803) 249-1651. Union Annual. Salon International du Coquillage, normally Srd week in June. JULY Conchologists of America, July 11-15. Hosted by the Southwest Florida Conchological Society at the Sheraton Harbor Place, Fort Myers, Florida. Gene Herbert & Al Bridell, General Convention Co-Chairmen. Contact: Phyllis & Bernard Pipher, 1116 N Street, Tekamah, NE 68061. Western Society of Malacologists 21st Annual Meeting, July 17-21, Sonoma State University. Contact: M.J. James, Dept. of Geology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, (707) 664-2301 or 664-2334, AUGUST Palaeontological Association, Geological Society of London & international Commission on the Lithosphere. Paleozoic Biogeography and Paleogeography. August 14-19, 1988. Oxford, England. Contact: Christopher R. Scotese, 4425 Betty Street, Bellaire, TX 77401 (713) 663-2688 or W. S. McKerrow, Dept. Earth Science, Parks Road, Oxford, England Ox1 _ SPR (0865) 272000. SEPTEMBER Canadian Paleontology & Biostratigraphy Seminar, September 23-25, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Contact: R.J. Elias, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2. OCTOBER Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, October 30 - November 3, Denver, CO. Contact: Abstracts Coordinator, 3300 Penrose Place, PO Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301. NOVEMBER Hawaiian Malacological Society, Tentatively early November for combined Shell Show and Auction. Contact: Hawaiian Malacological Society, Inc., P.O. 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