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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE OCTOBER MEETING 
jibrarian Harold Feinberg noted, among other comments on the Club 
library, that he has available to members the most recent listing 
of the books and papers it contains. He added that the time has 
come for a revision of the catalog, particularly of the reference- 
materials section. He asked for volunteer help, to make an up-to- 
date roster of reference titles. The library is adjacent to 
Harold's office at the American Museum. He can be reached at TR.3- 
1300 (Extension 417). 
President Veronica Johns had two items of sad news to announce. The 
first was the recent death of George Radwin, of the San Diego Natu- 
ral History Museum. He was co-author with Tony D'Attilio of "Murex 
Shells of the World." The second item was conveyed in a letter from 
Dr. R. Tucker Abbott, announcing that the Delaware Museum of Natural 
History had suspended operations of their Mollusk Department, al- 
though the public shell exhibits are still open to visitors. While 
this was described as a temporary situation, Dr. Abbott noted that 
staff members will be seeking positions elsewhere. 
The first speaker was Virginie Fowler Elbert, who offered a follow- 
up to Frank Nelson's September presentation on St. Lucia. She said 
that she had never found a shell in the Soufriere region, where the 
Nelsons had done most of their unrewarding shelling. In the north- 
er part of the island, however, she had found the shelling very 
good, even though she does only beach collecting. She displayed a 
sampling of her finds, including Oliva, Strombus, Astraea, Conus, 
Phalium, Murex, Cypraea, Terebra, Fissurelia, Voluta, and Cyma- 
tium. Mrs. Elbert is the author of the just-published "Shellcraft." 
The main speaker was Richard Goldberg, whose subject was two shell- 
ing expeditions through the Florida Keys. His major collecting stops 
were on Vaca, Bahia Honda, Spanish Harbor, Upper and Lower Matecumbe, 
Indian and Duck Keys, and Key West. With the aid of slides, he de- 
scribed the differences in the habitats, and noted the species he 
had collected in each. 
Milton Werner, Recording Sec'y 
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INSPIRED BY SEASHELLS 
Ethelyn Woodlock 
last spring the Bergen Community Museum in Paramus, New Jersey, in- 
vited me to have an exhibition in May and June. It was an accumula- 
tion of many years of using shells in my paintings, acquiring shell 
antiques and collecting rainbow-colored shells. It took over a 
month to plan the displays for five cabinets and Bill Old came out 
Several times to help. His suggestion - to put the labels and 
Shells up on boxes - gave it the professional touch, so I cut blocks 
of wood to the desired sizes and painted them a soft green. Fifty- 
eight items were on the walls; there were shell paintings with poems, 
assemblages, and constructions, which made it my most ambitious ex- 
hibition, With so much packing and carting, I doubt if it will ever 
be repeated. 
How many colors live deep in 
Cabinet gave a double view o z 
of Pecten melica Iredale, orange nodosus 4. 
the ocean! A mirrored-back six-foot 
f shells of all colors. The bright red 
,» nobilis Reeve in all 
