NEW YORK SHELL CLUB Norns 
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMU MEETING 
The best part of arriving for an AMU meeting is to see old friends 
for the first time ina Seas or two or three or five. It was pour- 
ing rain Sunday, July 16 as we landed in Wilmington, but, unexpect- 
edly, Ginnie Jennewein was there at the airport to greet us and take 
us to the UNC campus. This was only our first sample of the hospi- 
tality and consideration of our hosts of the North Carolina Shell 
Club. They hosted approximately 110 delegates attending from points 
as far away as Brazil, California, and Canada. 
On Monday morning a council of systematic malacologists was held, 
attended mostly by professionals. As the meeting did not formally 
convene until 2:00 p.m., others took the opportunity that morning 
to do a few hours sight-seeing or go off on their own searching for 
land or freshwater mollusks. 
The North Garolina Shell Club had prepared a splendid exhibit of the 
shells of North Carolina, displayed in several cases in the foyer of 
King Hall where the auditorium was located. Most of us marveled 
that these beautiful specimens were taken in North Carolina waters 
as so many species (Cowry, Murex, Pen Shells, Angel Wings, Tulip, 
Junonia, etc.) we associate only with Florida collecting. However, 
one must remember that the Gulf Stream follows the coast northward 
to Cape Hatteras before it sweeps off across the ocean. These "Flor- 
ida species" live offshore in waters influenced by the Stream (See: 
AMU ANN. REP. 1967, p.23, NOTES ON SOME MOLLUSCA OFF THE COAST OF 
NORTH CAROLINA (Abstract), Porter and Jenner. Also NYSC NOTES 135.2), 
The papers presented at the formal sessions were varied and interest- 
ing with topics ranging through anatomy and behaviour to structure 
and species determination in land, freshwater, and marine mollusks. 
Among the presentations: J.P. E. Morrison described the triangular 
shape of the Unionidae glochidia which are shed in mucus strings and 
clamp on the exterior of fishes for their metamorphosis, while the 
short-hinged glochidia of the Amblemidae are parasitic on the gills 
of fishes...Ruth Turner and Elaine Hoagland continue to monitor an 
advise the directors of the nuclear power plant at Oyster Creek, New 
Jersey, where the effects of raised salinity and warm effluent from 
the plant has been to cause an outbreak of shipworms resulting in 
much destruction...Jerry Harasewych reported one segment of his work 
with the Busycon: examining radulae of four species (twelve lots) he 
found the number of cusps per rachidian to be constant in the sub- 
genus Busycotypus, but variable in the subgenus Busycon sometimes 
according fo ie age of the animal, sometimes with peetiont popula- 
tions...William E. Old reported that of the dozen species of Chitons 
occurring in the Galapagos Islands, 50% are endemic to the archipel- 
ago; his discussion was illustrated with color slides... David 
Stansbery and Dr. Clench co-authored a report on the Mollusks of Lake 
Waccamaw of North Carolina, where were found at least three species 
of gastropods and ten species of naiads. Several of these species 
appear to be found only in Lake Waccamaw. ... There were papers on 
Ve eumbeaet Nudibranchs, Corbicula, Lyonsia, Slugs, Fingernail 
lams and other mollusks ~-"SheIPeanavouy, behariane, reproduction. 
On Shell Club Night the extra added attracti i 
ction was the showing of 
cp peten! Mathilde Weingartner of her trip to Russia. ba. Wednesday 
ly a oa? Professor of Marine Sciences at UNC, gave us a live- 
& with a special, illustrated program: SHARKS AND RAYS: 



