

R E 2 January 1978 Page 1 
The NEW YORK SHELL CLUB meets on the second Sunday of each month, 
September through June, in 
ROOM 319, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978, at 2:00 p.m. 
PROGRAM: DR. R. TUCKER ABBOTT will be our guest speaker. 
DON'T MISS this special program. 

CONTENTS 
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Highlights of the November Meeting Milton Werner 1 
Reflections of a Non-Shell-Collecting 
Collector Ernie Stark 2 
Mollusks of the Palisades Morris K. Jacobson 4 
One Part Per Million Don Kuntz > 
'Watchclams' to Check Minor Oil Spills Miami Herald 6 
Discord in Paradise (Turton) Morris K. Jacobson 6 
Voluta (Harpulina) arausiaca Robert Janowsky 7 
Sea Level Panama Canal AMU Newsletter 7 
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOVEMBER MEETING 
Probing with brain-surgeon fingers into twin nests of soap flakes, 
Fred Cannon winkled out two visual treats: fine specimens of the 
rare, beautiful and extremely delicate Spondylus loriosus. The up- 
per valve of one is red, and of the other, orange. He reported hav- 
ing simultaneously acquired a third, all white, which he had not 
attempted to transport. They had been collected off Hawaii, at 150 
fathoms. On two recent occasions, examples of gloriosus won Shell- 
of-the-Show. 
The day's speaker was member Bruce Einsohn. His presentation on 
land shelling was titled "Stalking Wild Beasts in Your Back Yard." 
He noted that there is, at present, a resurgence of interest in land 
shelling not matched since the earliest days of serious collecting. 
Land mollusks, he said, are the second-most successful terrestrial 
invertebrates, following the insects. After offering a number of ob- 
servations on land-collecting opportunities, he showed and described 
a series of slides, starting with a diagram of typical land-snail 
anatomy. Subsequent slides showed a variety of local collecting 
spots: the back yard, in Flushing, of member Richard Goldberg; the 
Kissena Park bridal path, in Bayside; the shores of Oakland Lake in 
Alley Pond Park (all in Queens, N.Y.33 the William T. Davis Wildlife 
Refuge in Staten Island, and the Laurel Hollow Nature Preserve at 
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. Thirteen genera of land snails 
were pictured in this series. Bruce ended with a group of close-up 
photos of particularly attractive tropical land snails. His climac- 
tic slide was the traditional sunset. Appropriately, it was an 
urban sunset scene. 
Milton Werner, Recording Sec'y. 
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OUR THANKS to Harold Feinberg, Dorothy Janowsky and Marie Sussman 
who worked to compile the New York Shell Club Library Listing that 
was sent out with our December issue. 

