
NEW YORK SHELL CLUB _ NOTES 
Page 2 May 1977 No. 232 
Encyclopedia of Shells." Business at the sale table was under the 
hand of Lee Nelson. 
r and buffet supper, topped off with 
he ensuing cocktail hou : : : 
ponenate ess: the volume and intensity of conversation was judged 
to have reached a new high. : 
Milton Werner, Recording Secretary 
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FRANCIS S. HARMON 
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It is with sorrow that we report the loss of our member ‘ 
Harmon, who died in St. Luke's Hospital on April 27th. Our deepest 
sympathy is with his wife, Waverley, and their family. 
Mr. Harmon was born in Mississippi 82 years ago. From his early 
work as a newspaper publisher in the south he went to California, 
where he was with the Hays office for ten years, and where he be- 
came vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America. 
From 1932-1936 he was general secretary of the International Com- 
mission of the Young Men's Christian Association, a position which 
required a number of trips abroad. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harmon were already world travellers when they became 
interested in shells (Mrs. Harmon joined the New York Shell Club in 
1962, Mr. Harmon became a member in 1966.), and the collecting of 
shells became a prime objective on several of their subsequent 
trips -- to Japan, Australia, Russia, Kashmir, the Barbados, and 
more than one to Africa and Mauritius. 
Ex-newspaperman that he was, Francis Harmon made detailed notes re- 
cording his experiences and observations -- observations which 
might touch perceptively on political and social conditions as well 
as scenery and shells. We were privileged to publish in our NOTES 
excerpts from his records of two of their trips: "Adventures in 
Africa" (1966) appeared in NYSC NOTES 156:4-6; his "Queensland 
Odyssey" (1968) in NOTES 158:5-6, 159:6-7, 160:6-7. 
We mourn his passing. A memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m. 
on Friday, June 3rd, 1977, at the Interchurch Center Chapel, 475 
Riverside Drive, New York City. 

ARTICLE OF THE MONTH 
"On a snail's chances of becoming a vear old" is th i 
Tom Spight's article in OIKOS 6° (1) 4 9-14, 1975. idevaiotpmintes 
of juvenile Thais were obtained by comparing fecundities to size 
ee and to counts of juveniles, Although about one thousand 
oees are produced annually by a female, rarely do ten eggs survive 
fs age a For Thais lamellosa both egg and yearling crops varied 
ph hi rare of magnitude over a five-year period. Numbers reaching 
fe ne increased annually from 1968-1973 in two populations and 
e change parallelled an increase in food abundance. 
Henry D. Russell 
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DON'T MISS Ethelyn Woodlock! 
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artifacts. Bergen Community oxntbit of paintings, Shells, shell 
Museum, Paramus, N.J., May 4 - July 3. 
