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half of each year in Florida, and Honorary Member Dr. William K. 
Emerson, Curator of Living Invertebrates, AMNH. 
The annual election resulted in the following slate of new and re- 
elected officers: 
President Fred Cannon 
Vice-President Dorothy Janowsky 
Treasurer Mathilde Weingartner 
Recording Secretary Milton Werner 
Corresponding Sec'y Marie Sussman 
Historian Nick Katsaras 
Directors William E. Old, 
Dr. Harold Sussman, 
Dr. William Walkwits 
A visitor to the meeting was Edward Petuch, of the University of 
Miami. He had been Jerry Harasewych's companion on the collecting 
trip that Jerry described for us at the May meeting and, as a sur- 
prise speaker, added his observations on this Caribbean expedition. 
He thinks their finds include a number of new species, from locali- 
ties not previously collected. He mentioned seeing, near Cartagena, 
Venezuela, Cypraea mus not only crawling on exposed rocks, but also 
across a road, at night. Ed had with him, and displayed, some shells 
collected on the trip. 
The scheduled speaker was Bill Old, whose subject was Conus. Re- 
marking on the confusion in the taxonomy of the family that has re- 
sulted in hundreds of synonyms, he showed slides that illustrated 
the variation that characterizes many species, and that generated 
much of the confusion. He also showed photographs of a number of 
freak cones. His last slide showed a number of rarities in a "group 
picture" which he described as a King's ransom in cones from South 
Africa. Bill had on display a number of specimens from his own col- 
lection. 
Milton Werner, Recording Sec'y 
CHANGE OF ADDRESS FOR 
AMERICAN MALACOLOGISTS, PUBLISHERS 
Dr. R. Tucker Abbott informs us that as of July 20, 1979, their new 
address is: 
American Malacologists 
PIO; Box 22553 
Melbourne, Florida 32901 

SHELL DESK DIARY, 1980 
The 1980 edition of the "Shell Desk Diary" has a new publisher and 
may be ordered by sending, for each copy desired, $4.00 plus 8% tax 
to: SHELL DESK DIARY, Attention Gerald Galison, 25 West 43rd Street, 
Room 1023, New York, New York 10036. 
Only orders received by August 15th were guaranteed November deliv- 
ery. If you want this forthcoming 1980 edition to complete your 
set, we suggest you order as soon as possible. 
