NeW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 260 March 1980 Page 1 
The NEW YORK SHELL CLUB meets o 
September through June, in 
ROOM 426, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF 
NATURAL HISTORY 
NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1980, at 2:00 pm 
PROGRAM: JAMAICA BAY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, ITS HISTORICAL AND 
ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE by Maxwell Cohen, Chairman 
of the Department of Biology, Beach Channel 
High School of Oceanography at Rockaway. 
MINI-TALKS on NOMENCLATUR 
Fred Cannon. E, by Bob Janowsky and 
Sv DISCUSSION OF PLANS FOR OUR ANNUAL APRIL SOCIAL 
(See page 8.) 
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n the second Sunday of each month, 
CONTENTS Page 
Highlights of the January Meeting Milton Werner t 
Correction re: Melanoides tuberculata Dorothy Raeihle 2 
Shelling in a Different Language 3 
Klines' Glossary of Shelling Terms Mary C. Kline 4 
Cypraea katsuae Kuroda 1960 Robert H. Janows 6 
anal April Social to be held April 13 or 8 
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE JANUARY MEETING: 
President Fred Cannon gave advance notice that it will be necessary 
to increase dues, since present income no longer covers the cost of 
producing and mailing the NOTES. Without adequate income, we would 
very soon be unable to consider expenditures to bring in invited 
speakers, and program quality would suffer. The executive committee 
will submit a proposal for a new dues structure at the February 
meeting. 
The shells in the display case were Cones from Al Scarpetti's collec- 
tion. All of them were attractive, and Al made the point that none 
of the species were rare, or even uncommon, and were, therefore, not 
expensive. None, he said, would cost more than $6.00. The purpose 
of the display was to encourage anyone who might feel that assembling 
a handsome collection of cones would be prohibitively expensive. 
The first speaker, member John Bockelman, described his recent col- 
lecting activities on Majuro Island, in the Marshall Islands, and on 
Guam, in the Marianas. In addition to commenting on the scenes in 
his slides, he gave some details on the shell-cleaning equipment and 
methods he used, and on his provisions for smell control. 
The first three brief talks in the basics of shell collecting were ~ 
presented by Milton Werner, speaking on land collecting, Al Scarpetti 
on buying shells, and Richard Goldberg on trading. Richard distri- 
buted a two-page summation of the advice and suggestions he offered. 
The invited speaker was Edward Petuch, of the University of Miami. 
He described a working collecting trp to Colombia, Venezuela and 
Brazil that yielded a number of new species and provided him with a 
theory as to the paleohistory of the Caribbean faunal province. At 
Cartegena, Colombia, he boarded a shrimp boat and lived on it ae 
the several days of a working voyage, trying to snatch shells -- in- 

