NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 26 June-July-Aug.1980 Page 1 
The NEW YORK SHELL CLUB me 
September through June, in ets on the second Sunday of each month, 
ROOM 426, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1980, at 2:00 pm 
PROGRAM: WATER: Used by every living creature. Its 
resource, its forms, its cycle, its uses 
and its conservation. 
By Mathilde P, Weingartner 
SN ee oe eed re ee 
CONTENTS 
Highlights of the Annual Social Meeting Milton Werner 
Review: Simon & Schuster's GUIDE TO 
SHELLS, by Bruno Sabelli Doroth 
Announcement of Publications: ghee . 
Pathways in Malacology 
Indo-Pacific Mollusca, back numbers 
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Monographs of Marine Mollusca, No. 1 3 
SHELLS, by Mary Saul 
More on Chicoreus orientalis, new name M. K. Jacobson 4 
1978 AMELA Expedition to Solomon Islands Philip W. Faulconer 5 
Post Office Snails Conchologist's Newslet. 7 
Cypraea kuroharai Kuroda & Habe, 1961 Robert H. Janowsky 8 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ANNUAL SOCIAL MEETING: 
The Club's April meeting was, once again, a social meeting, held at 
the Broadway Dance Studio in Astoria, Queens (courtesy of Dorothy 
Jensen), on April 13 - the second day following the settling of the 
city's second transit strike. 
President Fred Cannon, after a welcome to members and guests, thank- 
ed all those members who had donated material for the auction, men- 
tioning especially Waverley Harmon, who contributed a large number 
of fine shells. Nick Katsaras, Sol Weiss and Seashells Unlimited 
also made notable contributions of shells, and artist Al Scarpetti 
added several shell pictures - fine examples of his gouache painting. 
The speaker was Russell Jensen, of the Delaware Museum of Natural | 
History. He spoke on shelling in Bermuda, showing a large selection 
from the slide collection he has built up through his years of wad- 
ing, snorkeling and Scuba-diving there. He noted that the island, 
geologically, is a fossil sand dune, and traced the origin of its 
famous pink sand: parrotfish in search of food grind coral with 
their strong beaks, and excrete particles of coral which are then 
taken in by holothurians, reduced further, and finally excreted as 
pink sand. 
Russell described the use of carrion-baited cage-traps, to depths of 
1,200 feet, and dredges. Both are frequently lost in action, and 
traps are sometimes stolen. He also showed pictures of a ship's’ 
ventilator that was converted to a deflector for use with a boat's 
propellor. The prop wash, turned downward, digs out Macrocallista 
nimbosa with minimum effort. Among the shell close-ups Russ showed 
were one of a hybrid Tellina, and one of a European Murex that was 
