Page 2 November 1977 No. 236 NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES 
From the Delaware Museum of Natural History: 
NEWS 
that the Board of Directors of the Del- 
aware Museum of Natural History have reluctantly voted to suspend 
the operations of the Mollusk Department at the museum on lpvenerr 
15, 1977. Public exhibits at the museum will remain open. Owever, 
the Curator and Assistant Director of the Museum, R. Tucker Abbott, 
and the Assistant Curator of Mollusks, Russell H. Jensen, as a con- 
sequence, will be leaving their positions. Professional malacolo- 
gists are invited by the Director to continue to use the facilities 
of the museum. Those wishing malacological information may address 
Dr. Abbott at P. O. Box 4208, Greenville, Delaware 19807 and Mr. 
Jensen at R. D. 1, Box 55, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 19317. 
These events will not adversely affect the publication of The Nauti- 
lus, Indo-Pacific Mollusca, The Standard Catalog of Shells or publi- 
cations of American Malacologists, Inc. 
We deeply regret to announce 
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEPTEMBER MEETING 
The new editor of NYSC NOTES, Michael Torrusio, announced that he 
and the staff hope to get the NOTES into the mail early enough in 
the month so that all members will have their copies comfortably in 
advance of meetings. He asked for editorial contributions by men- 
bers, and for any comments that might lead to improvement of the 
NOTES. 
President Veronica Johns, in introducing Karl Jacobson as the first 
speaker, noted that this might be the last meeting he would attend 
as a resident of New York. He and Pinkie have been dividing their 
. time between homes in New York and Florida, and have decided to be- 
come Floridians who will make summer trips to their old haunts. 
Karl observed that he was about to deliver "a talk on collecting," 
and elucidated by stating that when one embarks on shell collecting 
one must necessarily also become a collector of certain other clas- 
sifications of items. Among these might be: (1) Boxes of all sizes; 
{3 Medicine bottles and vials; (3) Letters from other collectors; 
4) Field notes and diaries; (5) Photographs; (6) Autographs of 
malacologists; (7) Literature on conchology and mollusks; (8) Quotes 
concerning c. and m. He expanded on the last classification by giv- 
ing examples from his own treasury of quotations - this proving to 
py BRIG esate gg talk. The authors and works whose con- 
on our favorite subject he shared with his audi i ed 
Mark Twain, The New York Times, Robert Browning, The eee 
the Hearth, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Simon and Garfunkle,. 
eri Russell, John Updike, D. H. Lawrence, Decline of the West, 
illiam Shakespeare, The Flight of the Phoenix, Lorna Doone, Seidman 
and Son, biographers of Tolstoy and Anatole France, Anthony Burgess, 
Mend Moreen Gio ee the Dutchess of Malfi, Rona Jaffe and 
ndbergh. n agglom i i 
might have the mee aaee ofa shell cn a: aie ad Gevinva) ibe 
The main speaker was Frank Nelson wh i 
: i; o drew on a recent trip to 
-oaut Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, for a comprehensive preeentn- 
ion on what gratifications and difficulties are encountered in 
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