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the egg cases." eee 
i C ive Leucozonia nassa Gmelin, 
The excerpt is from "Notes on Captiv Ceo e eras Pilsbry,” 
vhaetopleura apiculata Say, and Ischnoc 2205s ..% 
by Dorothy Raeihle. Annual Reports for 1967 of the American Mala 
cological Union, pp. 13-14. 
*(Prunum apicinum is now Marginella apicina.) ae 

RETURN OF CLAMMING IN STATEN ISLAND WATERS? 
Last April 1st the Staten Island ADVANCE announced the beginning of 
fein pha of a purification plant for hard shell clams (Mercenaria 
mercenaria) taken from waters of questionable cleanliness. ay ‘ 
wrote that the local waters had not yet been certified by the State 
Department of Environmental Conservation and were still classified 
as "closed areas," but that the agency was permitted limited clam- 
ming under strict monitoring for the new purification plant which 
was owned and operated by the Great Kills Shell Fish Corporation. 
"Under the new process...salt water is pumped into polyester-lined 
tanks, where it is filtered continuously through corrugated boards 
and piping. After 48 hours, the clams are purified and considered 
edible." 
We have up-to-date news from Mathilde Weingartner, who writes: "Yes, 
the clam purification plant is still active. They even had a piece 
on TV news, channel 5 about 10:30 pm, October 24th. They are ac- 
tively clamming; a boating friend of mine says that their clamming 
boats are labeled with big placards (I don't know if they clam with 
@ pressure hose?). They wash the clams for 48 hours with salt wa- 
ter, and also irradiate them with ultraviolet. They send samples 
“rom every batch to the NYC Health Department laboratory at Seaview 
Hospital. So far only one batch has been found not to be clean 
(tested for B. Coli.) and that's after running this operation for 
two years. They claim that Staten Island waters are full of clams. 
The disease for which the clamming industry was closed in 1961 was 
hepatitis." 
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A SEARCH FOR AMPHIDROMUS 
Renate Wittig Skinner 
38 Barnes Street 
Windy Ridge 
Greenville, N.C. 27834 
(Renate Wittig Skinner worked in Thailand for many years and would 
take several trips a year to Indonesia to collect Shells, thus ac- 
quiring a good background knowledge of the area. --R. Janowsky) 
Since the end of June we are back from our long Asia trip. I did 
the Indonesia trip alone, but met twice with my husband, Ed, during 
that time. My trip was the most difficult one I ever made, because 
of increasing transportation difficulties. 
Indonesia, at least the part where I travel -- Lesser Sunda Islands 
Flores (Island), and Banda Seas -- has had several heavy eruptions 
particularly close to the sea and in the sea, where even a mountain 
