NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 247 December 1978 Page 1 
The NEW YORK SHELL CLUB meets on the second Sunday of each month, 
September through June, in 
ROOM 426, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1978, at 2:00 p.m. 
PROGRAM: REMINISCENCES OF SHELL SHOWS PAST 
by William E. Old 

CONTENTS 
Page 
Obituary: Gordon Nowell-Usticke W.E. Old, D. Raeihle 1 
Shell Show Dates, 1979 2 
Life Revives in Old Brevard (Thiara) M. K. Jacobson 2 
Highlights of the October Meeting Milton Werner 4 
Publications: Review, Wagner and Abbott's 
Standard Catalog of Shells Dorothy Raeihle 5 
Conus milneedwardsi Jousseaume Robert Janowsky 6 
Monographs of Marine Mollusca, new publication Kf 

GORDON NOWELL-USTICKE 
We regret to announce the death, on September 25th, of our long- 
time member Gordon Usticke. Born in England near the turn of the 
century, his was a long and varied career. He served in the British 
Army in World War I, attaining the rank of Major. Later he emi- 
grated to this country and became a dealer in rare stamps of the 
United States, using the firm name of “Stanley Gibbons of New York" 
(not related to "Stanley Gibbons of London"). 
While on a visit to Virginia Beach in the early 1950's he evinced 
an interest in shells and asked to be directed to someone knowledge- 
able on the subject. He was referred to Bill Old, then living in 
Norfolk, and thus began his long association with shells and the 
New York Shell Club. 
He was a resident of New York and occupied an apartment on Central 
Park West until his retirement to St. Croix, where he owned acreage 
and a home which already had become his permanent address. It was 
at a meeting of the New York Shell Club in the fall of 1956 that he 
announced the closing of his city apartment and invited all present 
to visit his place after the meeting to collect his surplus shells. 
It was a very generous gesture and, needless to say, his invitation 
was accepted. 
He is first mentioned in NYSC NOTES in No. 16, as “our own Mr. Us- 
ticke" who brought many limpets from the Virgin Islands to the 1955 
meeting of the American Malacological Union at Staten Island. Upon 
his retirement he became our "West Indian correspondent" and in the 
following ten years contributed many articles to these NOTES, chief- 
ly concerning the fauna of St. Croix and neighboring islands, but 
