shells. It is more important that the professional spend his time in caring 

 for his vast collections, doing his research and writing for the benefit of all, 

 than in identifying for the few. Medical workers, agriculturalists, archaeol- 

 ogists, fisheries men, ecologists, and other professional malacologists already 

 demand a great deal of his time. 



BOOKS AND PERIODICALS USEFUL TO THE COLLECTOR 



Based on the list prepared by the Division of Mollusks, 

 U. S. National Museum 



DIRECTORIES AND U. S. JOURNALS 



Directory of Conchologists; an American and international list of people interested 

 in mollusks; names, addresses, interests and exchange activities. Write: Mr. John Q. 

 Burch, 4206 Halldale Ave., Los Angeles, California. Mimeographed. 



Annual Report of the American Malacologicdl Union; sent without charge to mem- 

 bers. Contains abstracts of papers read at annual meetings, news of member clubs, 

 names and addresses of over 500 members, revised annually. Write: Secretary, Buffalo 

 Museum of Science, Buffalo 11, New York. 



The Nautilus; a quarterly devoted to the interests of conchologists; technical and 

 semi-popular articles, notes and news. Write: H. B. Baker, Business Manager, 11 Chelten 

 Road, Havertown, Pa. 



Minutes of the Conchological Ciub of Southern California; many valuable papers, 

 notes, news of collections and collectors. Write: Mr. John Q. Burch, 4206 Halldale Ave., 

 Los Angeles, California. Mimeographed. 



BOOKS AND ARTICLES 



General 



Abbott, R. Tucker, 1955. Introducing Seashells; 64 pp., 6 large color plates, numerous 

 drawings. How to build and keep a shell collection. 



Allan, Joyce, 1956. Cowry Shells of World Seas, x + 170 pp., 15 pis. Georgian 

 House, Melbourne, Australia. 



Bartsch, Paul, 1931. Mollusks; Smithsonian Scientific Series, Vol. 10, Part III, pp. 

 251-357, 36 plates. Excellent review of the field. 



Cooke, A. B., 1895. Mollusca; Vol. 3, The Cambridge Natural History, 459 pp., 

 311 figs., 3 maps. Popular and technical. 



Hutchinson, William M., 1954. A Child's Book of Sea Shells; 30 pp., numerous 

 black and white drawings. Excellent children's book (9-15 years). 



Mayo, Eileen, 1944. Shells and How They Live; 33 pp., numerous paintings. Good 

 child's book, same age level as the preceding. 



Pelseneer, Paul, 1906. Mollusca; Vol. 5 of Ray Lankester's A Treatise on Zoology, 

 355 pp., 301 figs. Technical; excellent for advanced students. 



Piatt, Rutherford, 1949. Shells Take You Over World Horizons; 50 pp., 32 full 

 colored plates. National Geographic Magazine, July, 1949. 



Rogers, Julia E., 1951. The Shell Book; 485 pp., 87 plates (8 in color); excellent for 

 beginners. Reprint of 1908 edition, names brought up to date by Harald A. Rehder. 



Smith, Maxwell, 1940. World-Wide Sea Shells; 139 pp., many drawings. 



Verrill, A. Hyatt, 1936. Strange Sea Shells and their Stories; 211 pp., text figs., 

 5 plates, 1 colored. 



, 1950. The Shell Collector's Handbook; 228 pp., illustrated. 



Webb, Walter F., 1942. United States Mollusca; 220 pp., 63 plates; deals with 

 marine, land, and freshwater shel's. Useful and interesting. 



, 1948. Handbook for Shell Collectors; 236 pp., about 1,000 species figured. 



, 1948. Foreign Land Shells; 183 pp., 73 plates. Some freshwater shells included, 



and interesting stories. 



Western Atlantic, Florida, West Indies — Marine 



Abbott, R. Tucker, 1954. American Seashells; 541 pp., 40 plates (24 in color), many 

 figures. All common and most rare North American species covered. Excellent. 



, 1958. The Marine Mollusks of Grand Cayman Island, British West Indies; 



Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Monograph 11, 138 pp., 5 plates. 



Aldrich, Bertha D. E. and Snyder, Ethel, 1936. Florida Sea Shells; 126 pp., 11 plates; 

 about 150 species included. 



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