CONTENTS 



Page 

 FOREWORD _ i 



INTRODUCTION ii 



COLLECTING MARINE SHELLS 



Shoro and shallow water collecting, B. R. Bales _ 1 



Suggestions for West Coast marine collecting, Elsie M. Chace 6 



Short notes on collecting „ 9 



Cleaning marine shells, B. R. Bales 12 



Short notes on cleaning shells 16 



Dredging for everyone, Tom Burch „ 19 



Four to four hundred feet beneath the sea — 



dredging in Florida waters, Jeanne S. Schwengel 25 



Dredging along the California Coast, John Q. Burch 27 



Diving for shells, Thomas L. McGinly 30 



SCUBA diving for shells in Hawaii, Elizabeth Harrison „ 36 



Collector's items from commercial fishing gear, Lela M, Griffith 37 



Collecting mollusks from fish, Arthur H. Clarke, Jr 40 



Chitons, their collection and preservation, S. S. Berry _ 44 



Short notes on chitons _ 49 



Collecting shipworms, Ruth D. Turner „ 51 



Opisthobranchs, Salvatore L. Bianco, translated by E. O. Hovey 54 



Nudibranchiata, G. Dallas Hanna 54 



COLLECTING NON- MARINE SHELLS 



Fresh water snails, Frank C. Baker 55 



Trapping freshwater snails, Leonard N. Allison 58 



Short notes on freshwater snails _ _ 60 



Fresh water mussels, Henry van der Schalie _ 60 



Land shell collecting, William J. Clench 66 



Short notes on land snails 68 



Non-marine Pleistocene Mollusca, Aurele La Rocque 70 



Collecting mollusks in desert regions, E. J. Roscoe 72 



Finding snails in the desert, Wendell O. Gregg 75 



Preservation of slugs, Leslie Hubricht _.... _ 77 



ARRANGEMENT AND STUDY OF SHELL COLLECTIONS 



The shell collection, R. Tucker Abbott _ 79 



Books and periodicals useful to the collector 83 



Outstanding shell collections, R. Tucker Abbott 85 



Mechanics of a shell club, Robert J. L. Wagner _ 87 



United States Shell Clubs, Margaret C. Teskey 90 



"I hereby bequeath," Margaret C. Teskey 91 



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