Islands and Their Adjacent Territories; 134 plates (130 in color); excellent for amateurs 

 interested in Pacilic siiells. 



Jutting, T. van Benthem and Bessem, Paul 1952. "Gloria Maris" Shells of the 

 Malaysian Seas; 64 pp., 65 plates. An art book, excellent photographs. 



Kaicher, Sally D., 19,56. Indo-Pacific Sea Shells. First part 1956, 5 parts of 8 i.ssued 

 by 1957. Privately published. 



Nichols, J. T. and Bartsch, Paul, 1945. Fishes and Shells of the Pacific World; 

 Pt. Ill (shells), 73 pp., 16 plates. A general introductory survey. 



Powell, A. W. B., 1946. The Shellfish of New Zealand; 106 pp., 26 plates (1 in 

 color); check list and illustrations of common species. 



, 1957. Shells of New Zealand; 3rd ed., 202 pp., 36 pis., text figs. A new edition 



of the preceding under a slightly different title. 



Tinker, S. W., 1952. Pacific Sea Shells; 238 pp., 106 figures; handbook of common 

 marine moUusks of Hawaii and the South Seas. 



, 1958. The same; revised edition, 230 pp. 



Verco, J., 1935. Combing the Southern Seas; 174 pp., 18 plates (3 in color); accounts 

 of dredging and collecting. 



Land and Freshwater Mollusks of North America 



Baker, Frank C, 1928. The Freshwater Mnllusca of Wisconsin; Pt. I (Gastropoda) 

 507 pp., 28 plates; Pt. II (Pelecypoda) 480 pp., 76 plates. 



, 1939. Fiddhook of Illinois Land Snails; 166 pp., numerous text figures. 



Excellent for beginners. 



Goodrich, Calvin, 1932. The Mollusca of Michigan; Univ. Michigan, Univ. Museum, 

 Mich. Handbook series. No. 5, 120 pp., 7 pis., text figs. 



Pilsbry, Henry A., 1939-1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico); 

 Vol. I (2 pts.) 1003 pp., 580 figures; Vol. II (2 pts.) 1113 pp., 585 figures. The definitive 

 work on the subject; technical, but useful to amateurs. Excellent. 



Robertson, I. C. S. and Blakeslee, C. L., 1948. The Motlusca of the Niagara Frontier 

 Region; 191 pp., 13 plates; how to collect, collecting sites, descriptions, references. 

 Excellent. 



Collecting, Cleaning, and Mounting Shells 



Dall, W. H., 1892. Instructions for Collecting Mollusks, and Other Useful Hints for 

 the Conchologist; 55 pp., out of print, available at libraries. 



Light, S. F., 1954. Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast; revised; 

 446 pp. 



Poirier, Henry, 1954. An Up-to-date Systematic List of 3200 Seashells from Green- 

 land to Texas, Translation and Gender of Their Names; 215 pp., mimeographed. 



Stephens, T. C., 1946-1947. The Collection and Preparation of Shells; Vol. 24, 

 No. 9 and Vol. 25, No. 1 of Turtox News; 15 pp.; a rather full annotated list of 

 references. 



OUTSTANDING SHELL COLLECTIONS 



By R. Tucker Abbott 



Reprinted in part from American Seashe'ils 



There are a number of very lovely private collections in the United 

 States, some devoted wholly to marine species, others limited to land or 

 fresh-water types. Many represent years of collecting, others an expenditure 

 of many thousands of dollars. To mention a few would be to slight many 

 another. The best private collections are in California, Florida, Connecticut, 

 the New York area, and Massachusetts. As time passes, private collections 

 are either sold, lost or left to some public or university museum, so that 

 today we find the largest collections housed by public or endowed insti- 

 tutions. 



The United States National Museum, under the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion in Washington, D. C. contains what is undoubtedly the largest mollusk 



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