yew YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 250 March 1979 Page 3 
Jack McLellan, Nick Katsaras, Mathilde Weingartner and Cc 
The last three were present at the day's meeting oh. ere, 
Coincidentally, Karl Jacobson was heard from by way of a card ex- 
tending holiday greetings to all members. 
President Walkwitz announced that the Club library had been enriched 
ie oe copy of the recently revised "American Seashells" which was 
on display. 
Harvey Frajlich announced that the many shells he had placed on the 
front aide were for anyone who wanted them. He had collected them 
in Miami. 
The speaker was Mart Hulswit, past president, who offered "The Con- 
fessions of a Dramalacologist: A Decade of Shell Club Involvement." 
The imposing title, coined by Dr. Henry van der Schalie, recognizes 
that Mart is an actor and a shell collector, and that the two activ- 
ities have frequently mingled and enhanced each other. These occa- 
sions were part of the story Mart unwound with words and pictures. 
Another major theme was the influence that ten years of NYSC member- 
ship has had on his life. Not only has he formed many close friend- 
ships among members, but also among amateur and professional mala- 
cologists in other parts of the country and in Europe, with his 
Club membership and activities as the stepping stones. 
Mart first collected shells as a 10-year-old, near his boyhood home 
on the Paraguana isthmus of Venezuela. He had the courage to admit 
that he wanted these early finds -- Nerites and Chitons -- to use as 
fishing bait. His real start in conchology came when movie roles 
took him “on location" first to Jamaica, then to Miami. This led to 
his buying an identification book which by chance was one that 
listed the New York Shell Club..... So began a trail that has led to 
working with a dissection microscope, shell photography, visits to 
many of the malacology workrooms in major institutions here and in 
Europe, and a warm interest in the early conchological literature. 
Mart ended the selection of slides that traced these windings with 
a series of sunsets that indicated the range of his collecting trav- 
els. And then he noted that one of his two daughters has somehow 
developed an interest in marine biology as a career. 
Milton Werner, Recording Sec'y 
A NEW SHELL CLUB AT KEY WEST 
The Key West Shell Club was organized last summer (1978) and is now 
ready for visitors. Monthly meetings are held on the second Monday 
evening (7:30 pm) of each month at the Chamber of Commerce Building 
near the waterfront in Old Key West. 
A shell exhibit, noncompetitive, is being planned in conjunction 
with the Monroe County Fair in March, while frequent field trips 
Will be made to outlying keys, offering beach, snorkel and tank 
collecting. 
Contact Greg Curry or 
Square, adjoining the Chamber building (phone: 
e Bae ; Te. 
y take it from the KEY WEST SHELL CLUB 
P.O. Box 2183, Key West, FL 33040 
bb at the Shell Warehouse on Mallory 
apatoe 305: 296-2051) and 
