NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 259 February 1980 Page 1 
The NEW YORK SHELL CLUB meets on 
September through June, in 
ROOM 426, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1980, at 2:00 pm 
PROGRAM: HAWAIIAN ACHATINELLA by Richard Goldberg 
MINI TALK: CATALOGING and LABELING 
DISPLAY: Nick Katsaras and Richard Goldberg 
the second Sunday of each month, 
CONTENTS 
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Announcement: American Littoral Society 
Symposium, "Your Future in the Sea" 1 
Highlights of the December Meeting Milton Werner 1 
Book Review: COWRIES, second edition, 
revised by Jerry Walls Robert H. Janowsky 2 
Shell Show Dates: Broward Shell Club, 
Pacific Northwest Shell Club 3 
New Taxa from China Morris K. Jacobson 4 
Warning: Plastic sponge harms shell gloss Earl H. Reed 5 
Cypraea teremachii found in Philippines Robert H. Janowsky 
At Sky Lake, North Miami Anne & Albert Taxson 6 
A Note on Melanoides tuberculata (Muller) Dorothy Raeihle 6 
YOUR FUTURE IN THE SEA 
The American Littoral Society's NEWSLETTER of December, 1979, an- 
nounces: "The date for the Society's annual "Your Future in the Sea” 
symposium has been set. It's Saturday, March 29, 1980, American 
Museum of Natural History, 1-5 p.m., and 8-10:30 p.m. Please save 
the date." 
For information re: program and tickets, write to the American Lit- 
toral Society, Sandy Hook, Highlands, New Jersey 07732. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DECEMB&R MEETING 
Among the eight visitors to the meeting was one from Portugal. He 
is Ilidio Félix Alves, editor-in-chief of "Amphitrite," the periodi- 
cal of the malacology section of Centro Portuguese de Actividades 
Subaquaticas. Asked to say a few words, he noted that in Portugal 
most malacological activity is amateur. There is a group, most of 
them young, that do what they can to carry out work that the pro- 
fessionals can't fit into their schedules. Of his magazine, he 
said that his aim is to divide its coverage evenly between the sci- 
entist and the hobbyist. He also commented on the recent fire in 
Lisbon's natural history museum. The malacology department was 
among those that suffered the most disastrous damage (See NYSC NOTES 
No. 243, Pp. 4 “Bds)< 
Bill Old and Milton Werner showed slides taken during the 1979 an= 
nual meeting of the American Malacological Union, in Corpus Christi, 
Texas, adding comment. Bill was the 1978-79 president of the AMU. 
