Page 2 December 1979 No. 25 NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES 
In the second instance a great deal 
observations might be faulty. Ingions will never see the light of 
of erroneous data or faulty conc 
spel M. K. JACOBSON 
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE OCTOBER MEETING 
President Fred Cannon noted that Willie Antonowitz, whose status 
had changed from active to corresponding member when he moved oe : 
North Carolina, was among us for the first time in Six years. Next, 
Fred told of receiving a letter from Karl Jacobson, with the news 
that Pinky (Mrs. Jacobson) had had a pacemaker implanted shortly 
after their return to Florida, and was doing fine. Fred also re- 
ported that Ethelyn Woodlock was moving to Florida. 
Fred announced that he would like to devote several programs to the 
subject of handling a shell collection. Speakers' topics, he sug- 
gested, might include cataloging, shell cleaning, storage and dis- 
play, labeling, acquiring shells, and keeping live specimens. His 
request for members' reactions brought strong favorable response, 
He asked for additional suggestions, and got two: starting a shell 
library, and fossil collecting. 
Two visitors, a couple from Portugal, were introduced. They had 
brought with them, for display, four specimens of Conus delanoyi, 
from St. Vincent Island, Cape Verde Islands. Sol Weiss had on dis- 
play a number of Voluta musica collected by himself. The specimens 
had been selected to illustrate the variability of the species. 
The speaker was Bill Old, who had assembled a large group of close- 
up slides of shells representing the various categories of rarity. 
As he identified each shell, he added comments on the reasons for 
its rarity, and the movement of the species through the channels of 
scientific and amateur collecting. Bill cited the categories of 
rareness as: Biological (inaccessible habitat); @conomic (limited 
supply, strong demand); Residual (formerly rare, and still consid- 
ered so); Tomorrow's rarity (shrinking supply); Local (rare among 
collectors in certain parts of the world); Individuals (freaks, 
variations, etc.); "“iareshell" (one word, in the mind of a novice 
who has a shell he hasn't identified). 
Bill Old showed a slide, accompanied by commentary, taken at last 
summer's AMU meeting in Corpus Christi. 

Milton Werner, Recording Sec'y. 

More on "A COLLECTOR OF MINIATURES" 
Last month (NYSC NOTES 256.3) we reported an article by Harry G. Lee 
on the many small mollusks found in the digestive tract of a 5" bat- 
fish. There were 129 recognizable specimens of 8 species. We won- 
dered if any were in good condition, and in response we have this 
further note from Dr. Lee: 
",..Most specimens were intact, half were gem, but luster was dull 
on about half of the Olivella and Mitrella. Several shells were 
crabbed. We have examined locally-caught groupers, toadfish, etc. 
and shall publish findings in an upcoming SHELL-O-GRAM." 4 
