January, 2000 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No. 9 
Vice-President Leslie Harris, will lead the 
workshop. On 8 May a meeting on 
corrections, additions, deletions, and changes 
to the SCAMIT Ed 3 Taxonomic Listing prior 
to final preparations for Edition 4 will be held 
at SCCWRP. 
BIG NEWS 
At about nine p.m. on Thursday 27 January, 
Cheryl and Bob Brantley became the parents of 
a 10 lb. 5 oz., 21 inch long baby boy, Daniel 
Dennis Brantley!!! We hope to be introduced to 
this new future SCAMIT member as soon as 
possible. CONGRATULATIONS to both of 
them, but especially to Cheryl who worked 
long and hard to bring him among us. 
SCUM RESURFACES 
The fourth annual meeting of the Southern 
California Unified Malacologists was recently 
(14 January) held at the Institute for 
Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps 
Institution of Oceanography. SCAMIT stalwart 
Larry Lovell was a co-sponsor of the meeting 
along with Hugh Bradford and Terry Arnold. 
Approximately 30 attendees enjoyed the usual 
slate of activities: an introduction to the 
meeting, followed by introductions of 
individuals going around the room, and then 
presentations of works completed or in 
progress. Other SCAMIT members in 
attendance included secretary Megan Lilly, 
Don Cadien, and John Ljubenkov. John gave 
SCAMIT and Bight’98 a plug in his work 
statement. Presentations were brief and most 
eschewed visual aids. We did, however, have 
several slide shows. A particularly beautiful 
one presented by Mike Miller dealt with 
Philippine opisthobranchs (and a few other 
inverts as well). Kent Trego presented slides 
showing sampling at Deception Island in the 
south Atlantic. This is the caldera of an extinct 
volcano which is miles across and reaches 
depths of nearly 100m within it’s interior. I got 
the impression it was like winter sampling in 
Alaska, only colder. The slides Kent showed 
were quite beautiful and seeing scientists 
sampling from within international distress 
orange survival suits put a different spin on 
rough weather trawling off California. 
Dr. Jim McLean of the Natural History 
Museum of Los Angeles County showed us a 
sample plate from his monograph on California 
mollusks and opened up both volumes of the 
text to give us a preview. Looks like this long 
term project is fairly rapidly approaching its 
end. We also heard from Jules Hertz that the 
Coan, Scott & Bernard California bivalves 
monograph was shopping for a new publisher. 
The rumor was that when the previous 
publishers got a gander at the full size of the 
submitted MS they raised the publication cost 
by 3X! We wish them well in their search for a 
new and less costly way of producing the long- 
awaited volume. 
The San Diego Shell Club was well 
represented at the meeting. The editor (Carol 
Hertz) of their journal “The Festivus” was on 
hand and had copies of the latest supplement, 
her own “Illustration of the Types Named by S. 
Stillman Berry in his ‘Leaflets in Malacology’ 
Revised”. This supplement to Volume 31 is a 
revision of the Supplement to Volume 15 
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