NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 232 May 197 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, JUNE 12, 1977, at 2:00 PM 
PROGRAM: A TRIP TO ST. LUCIA 
by Frank Nelson 

CONTENTS 
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From the Minutes of the April Meeting Milton Werner 1 
In Memoriam, Francis S. Harmon 2 
Article of the Month (re: survival of 
juvenile Thais lamellosa (Spight)) Henry D. Russell 2 
Helix aspersa, portrait of a colonizer Ze'ev Bar 3 
History of Malacology to 1825 (XII) by 
Ducrotay de Blainville. Translation 
and adaptation by M. K. Jacobson 6 
Some Paleontological Hoaxes M. K. Jacobson af 
2 
Exhibit by Ethelyn Woodlock 
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FROM THE MINUTES OF THE APRIL MEETING 
This annual social meeting was held, as in the past, at NYSC member 
Dorothy Jensen's Broadway Dance Studio, in Astoria, Queens. Atten- 
dance was 60 members and guests. 
The first event on the program was the showing of a film obtained, 
by member Joel Rosenthal, from Southern Airways. It is titled 
"Things that Go Bump in the Night," and only two of the things are 
molluscan. All, however, are marine, making it eminently appropri- 
ate. The location is the wreck of the ship "Balboa" off Grand Cay- 
man. Most of the footage was shot at night, the hours of peak 
activity among the denizens of the deep attracted to the hulk for 
food and/or shelter. The comings and goings of such types as octo- 
pus, crab, blowfish, parracuda, croaker, squid, moray eel and parrot 
fish, to the accompaniment of humorous comment and sound effects, 
made an interesting presentation. 
Bill Old then showed slides he had taken at shell shows, and at zoos 
in Detroit, Milwaukee, Miami, Dallas, and Brownsville, Texas. He 
had chosen photos of a few of the most noteworthy specimens in each. 
He also showed several pictures of Operation Sail, New York City's 
July 4th Bicentennial event, and one of the stamp issued by Somalia 
that depicts Strombus oldi. 
Bill then switched occupations, and conducted the annual shell auc- 
tion. He opened by offering a copy of the famous July '49 issue of 
National Geographic Magazine, and followed with several excellent 
shell drawings and paintings executed and donated by artist-members 
Reimann and Scarpetti. The outstanding shells that found new homes 
were a beautiful Spondylus regius from Japan, and a Conus praelatus 
from Mozambique. 
The door prize was a two-for-one: op beebei and Murex macrop- 
terus. The raffle prize was a copy 0 eter Dance's “Collector's 
