
NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES 
Page 2 September 1979 No. 254 
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flourish with your help and input. We want you to enjoy the Club 
and to take an active part. Please respond! 
I wish to thank Bill Walkwitz, our retiring president, for all of 
his efforts to make the past year so enjoyable. 
I hope you all had a happy, healthy and restful summer and are 
"raring to go." 
We look forward to seeing you all on September 9. 
With warm regards, 
Fred Cannon 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MAY MEETING 
Treasurer Mathilde Weingartner, who had written to founding members 
Walter Jacobs and Karl Jacobson to inform them of their election to 
honorary life membership, read letters from both, expressing their 
appreciation. President William Walkwitz reported that he, also, 
had received notes of appreciation from each. 
The special display for the day was a group of Cypraea tigris assen- 
bled by Bill Old. One was a bisect, and the others showed unusual 
growth features, such as uncharacteristic coloration, lack of denti- 
tion, blurred spots, or abrupt color change. One was marked on one 
side of the dorsum with the stripe pattern of immaturity and on the 
other with the spots of a mature specimen. 
In appointing a nominating committee for the election of officers in 
June, Bill Walkwitz announced that he will be forced to step down 
after only one year as president because his work will prevent him 
from attending most meetings for the next year or more. 
The speaker was Jerry Harasewych, of the Delaware Museum of Natural 
History. He described a collecting trip to Venezuela, Granada and 
Barbados. The story of the misadventures that befell him and a fel- 
low naturalist in Venezuela he introduced as "a tale of woe and 
horror." The details included missed appointments, catch-as-catch- 
can living accommodations that were distressingly inferior and heav- 
ily overpriced, insects, air temperatures to 120 water temperature 
of 55°, and very little opportunity for collecting. The picture 
did begin to brighten shortly before they left for Granada and Bar- 
bados, and those stops lived up to hopes and expectations. At 
Barbados, their rediscovery of the long-unseen Conus couderti pro- 
vided the expedition with a grand finale. fe he ree re 
Milton Werner, Recording Sec'y 
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE JUNE MEETING 
President William Walkwitz pointed out that two " i 
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were present: Honorary Life Member Kar] Jacobson, ue ie Un 
