NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 233 June-July-Aug. 1977 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, SEPTEMBER 11, 1977, at 2:00 PM 
PROGRAM : A TRIP TO ST. LUCIA (with color slides) 
by Frank Nelson 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Announcements ; 4 
Sterkiana to cease publication ys 
From the Minutes of the May meeting Milton Werner 2 
Reviews Murex Shells of the World A. Myra Keen 3 
Article of the Month (re: Mytilus) Henry D. Russell 4 
Shellers, Beware!! (of charters) AMU Newsletter 4 
Philatelic Recognition (Strombus oldi Emerson) 5 
Some Historical Curios H. Odé 5 
Malacology in Literature Time Magazine (MKJ) 5 
Cuban Mollusk Immigrants in Florida Morris K. Jacobson 6 
Observations of Living Conus Germaine L. Warmke 8 
Notes on Spawning of Urosalpinx and 
Gemma and a Settling of Barnacles Dorothy Raeihle 9 

DATE OF FIELD TRIP CHANGED FROM JUNE 26 TO JULY 10 
We have been advised that the date of the First Annual Long Island 
Shell Club/New York Shell Club Field Trip to Orient Beach State Park 
has been changed from June 26 to Sunday, July 10, 1977. 
If interested, telephone Richard or Marc Goldberg at (212) 357-6338, 
after 6:30 pm, please. 

SHELL DESK DIARY 
Shell Oil Company is now accepting orders for their 1978 Shell Desk 
Diary. This 19th edition of the Diary will be a "handsomely bound, 
gold-stamped, 160 page hard-cover publication crammed with exqui- 
sitely printed color photographs, drawings and fine engravings of 
sea shells, as well as plenty of space to keep a record of every- 
thing you plan to do in 1978." 
The price is $3.00 for each Diary ordered. Make checks payable to 
Shell Oil Company and send to: Mr. F. H. Roberts, Shell Oil Company, 
Public Relations Department, One Shell Plaza, Room 1536, Houston, 
Texas 77001. 
Closing date for orders will be August 1. Diaries will be mailed 
in November. 
A limited edition of the Shell Desk Diary is printed each year, ac- 
cording to the number of prepublication orders. Shell Oil Company 
sends only one announcement of their forthcoming publication, so int 
you are at all interested you should place your order soon. 
LT 
