
New YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 262 May 1980 Page 3 
Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging 
Leiden, February 1980 
To the Editor of 
New York Shell Club Notes 
Dear Editor, 
We wish to inform you that the journal of th 
: , e Dutch Mala- 
cological Society BASTERIA has started in vol. 43 (1979) a series 
of publications on recent Conidae. 
’ The authors are Dr. H. E. Coomans, R. G. Moolenbeek and 
E. Wils, malacologists at the Zoological Museum Amsterdam. 
ae: For this revision the authors have studied the original 
descriptions, the type material (when available), and they have 
conapltert Museum and private collections in the Netherlands and 
abroad. 
The series is entitled 
"Alphabetical revision of the (sub) species in recent Conidae" 
and will be continued for a number of years. 
Black and white photographs of shells and distribution 
maps are supplied. 
Enclosed please find: 
No. 1. Conus abbas to C. adansonii. Reprint (Basteria 43: 9-26); 
No. 2. C. adansoni to C. albuquerquei. (in Basteria 43: 81-105). 
No. 3, Conus albus to C. antillarum, will be published in the first 
issue of Basteria vol. 44 (1980), with 6 distribution maps and 60 
photographs of Conus shells. 
We would appreciate it if you would advise the collectors 
and students of Conidae amongst your readers about this series. 
BASTERIA can be ordered from the treasurer of the Dutch 
Malacological Society: 
Dr, As cow. Bréure 
Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie 
Postbox 9517 
2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. 
Subscription price for one volume, in two issues per year (with 
over one hundred pages, illustrated), is 42,50 Dutch Guilders. 
The Editors of BASTERIA. 
(Editor's note: .No® 1 & 2 treat a total of 40 species and sub= 
species, with 11 distribution maps and 63 photographs of Conus 
shells. We will have the papers at the next meeting for you ba 
see. As for the price, Chemical Bank advised that, as ce Sea) 
10, 42,50 Dutch Guilders equals approximately oC eet. ee 
