Pa e 4 May 1979 No. 252 NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES 
NOTES FOR A HISTORY OF MALACOLOGY IN NEW YORK 
Morris K. Jac obson 
i i hologists (AAC) was founded April 2 
The American Association of Concholog oe ee 1e0k. Eke Ecudduabters’ 
1890 and gently passed from the scene : ; 
were at the hed of Natural Sciences a errr ere te pee 
j emble a complete 
project of the AAC was to ass ne henan (They may still 
shells of America, to be deposited in ; J 
be there.) A plan to have a convention of the AAC in Chicago at 
the time of the World's Fair of 1893 apparently did not succeed. 
There were never very many members from the New York City area among 
the 200 or so who at one time or another belonged to the Association, 
according to the two membership lists of 1890 which I have before me, 
In April 1890 we find the names of A. Schlehenreid of 738 Eleventh 
Avenue, New York, interested in Volutidae, Conidae, and Marginelli- 
dae (what happened to his collection?); William H. Weeks of 508 
Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, who later chose Bulimus (now Bulimulus) 
as his special field of study; Henry Prime of Huntingdon (or Hunting- 
ton?), New York who was interested in the geographical distribution 
of land shells; W. S. Teator of Upper Red Hook, New Jersey, inter- 
ested in the Succineidae; Thomas Morgan of Somerville, New Jersey, 
specialty Helicidae; and Professor R. P. Whitfield and Sanderson 
Smith of the American Museum of Natural History. It should be men- 
tioned that according to Rule VI of the Association every new member 
was required to select a special field of study shortly after he was 
accepted in the membership. Until 14896 there were no dues. In the 
April 1890 list I also find the names of students who specialized in 
definite geographical areas: Addie C. Appleton and Professor Ay 0. 
Apgar selected New Jersey, James Shepard took Connecticut, and Al- 
bert Bailey and William B. Marshall, New York. In the list of Octo- 
ber 1890, just a few months later, none of these fields were listed. 
In the October list, among the members, we find the following in ad- 
dition to those mentioned above: Arthur F. Gray, Warburton Building, 
Yonkers, specialty not yet chosen; and the Reverend A. B. Kendig of 
11 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, specialty Amphidromus. 
Paging through the two volumes of CONCHOLOGISTS' EXCHANGE, the an- 
cestor of NAUTILUS, I find that the Reverend Kendig used to live in 
fond aden 35 Dale Street and moved to his Brooklyn address about 
une . 
More information about some of these persons can be found in AMERI- 
CAN MALACOLOGISTS and SUPPLEMENT, (1974, 1975) available from Amer- 
ican Malacologists, P.O. Box 4208, Greenville, Delaware 19807. 
However, the following names do not appear in AMERICAN MALACOLOGISTS 
and as far as we could determine nothing further is known about then. 
ist would be of interest if any of our readers can supply any data so 
that in future revisions of AMERICAN MALACOLOGISTS they can be in- 
cluded: A. Schlehenreid, W. S. Teator, Thomas Morgan, Addie C. Apple- 
ton, James Shepard, Albert Bailey, and Arthur F. Gray. 

CO eOn As NEWS e e : 
- + The 1979 meeting of the Conchologists of America is 
planned for October at Santa Monica. CA. Thei 
quarterly, is under the new editorship of Rachane polewes ce 
Fresh Meadow Lane, Flushing, N. Y. 11365. - 

