NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 262 May 1980 Page 1 
The NEW YORK SHELL CLUB 
September through June, EHS: on the second Sunday of each month, 
ROOM 426, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1980, at 2:00 pm 
PROGRAM: FOSSILS OF THE CALOOSAHATCHEE FORMATION 
OF FLORIDA by George Raeihle 
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CONTENTS 
Summer Schedules 1980 ag 
Highlights of the March Meeting Milton Werner 1" 
For Collectors Visiting Europe Yves Rouget 2 
Revision in Conidae, in BASTERIA Editor 
REVIEW: Shells on Stamps of the World, aS é 
by Kohman Y. Arakawa Dorothy Raeihle 4 
More on Cypraea barclayi Reeve, 1857 L. Whatmore 5 
What's in a Name? Dorothy Raeihle 5 
Cypraea gondwanalandensis Burg., 1970 Robert H. Janowsky 5 

SUMMER SCHEDULES, 1980 
July 19-25: Annual Meeting of American Malacological Union, Execu- 
tive Inn, Louisville, Kentucky 40213. Host Chairman 
Mr. Walter Sage, 1123 Hathaway, Louisville, Ky. 40215. 
Aug. 1-3: Jacksonville Shell Club Shell Show, Flag Pavilion, 
Jacksonville Beach, Florida. 
Aug. 6-9: Annual Convention of Conchologists of America, Casa 
Marina Inn, Key West, Florida. 
Aug. 31 - Sept. 6: Seventh International Malacological Congress, 
Perpignon and Banyuls-sur-Mer. For information address 
Secrétariat du 7eme Congres International de Malacologie, 
Laboratoire de B.I.N. et Malacologie, 55 Rue de Buffon, 
F-75005 Paris, France. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MARCH MEETING 
The display case featured Cypraea from Bob Janowsky's collection. 
He had labelled them specially to illustrate the major points he 
covered in his mini-talk on the purpose of scientific names, and 
good and poor practices in entering names on labels. He illustrated 
his talk with slides showing good and poor examples of name entries. 
Our invited speaker was Maxwell Cohen, of the Beach Channel High 
School of Oceanography, Rockaway, New York. He is well remembered 
for his presentation five years ago on beach erosion along the south 
shore of Long Island. Mr. Cohen's subject this time was the Jamaica 
Bay Wildlife Refuge, and he made it equally interesting. He traced 
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the history of the Refuge to its present status as a National 
Service facility, and described the people and the methods that have 


