Page October 1980 Ho. 26 NEW YORK SHELL CLUB Norns 
MORRIS K. JACOBSON 
obson some time in the middle of the 
s AMU meetings and soon after we became close 
ape a dis tithe. aon last May when I met him at Tucker Abbott's 
home in Melbourne, Florida. Tucker and Cecelia had planned to take 
Karl to the AMU meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, but his first heart 
trouble prevented him from making the trip. 
rom New York to Harvard University, mainly 
ng the summer season, and this continued for many years after 
se ie naa in 1966. We published together six papers between 
1966 and 1971. We each had been to Cuba and we both enjoyed the 
work on the remarkable land snails collected in the Province of 
Pinar del Rio, the western end of Cuba, mainly in the region of the 
Sierra de los Organos. 
I first met Morris Karl Jac 
Karl had made many trips f 
William J. Clench 
Curator Emeritus 
Museum of Comparative Zoology 

WONDERS OF SNAILS AND SLUGS 
by Morris K. Jacobson and David R. Franz. 
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1980. 96 pages including glossary and index, 33 
black and white photos, 8 line drawings. Price $5.95. 
In "Wonders of Snails and Slugs" the writers compress the informa- 
tion on gastropods into a compact tome for the young reader. There 
are chapters on land snails, and land slugs, marine snails, fresh- 
water snails, and sea slugs adiheenchey. Sections are devoted to 
the shell, to anatomy, locomotion, feeding, reproduction, to disease- 
bearing snails, as well as to ‘snails and mankind.' 
The book is profusely illustrated with excellent black and white 
photos and line drawings. Being normally dextral, snail shells seen 
to be the bane of publishers, since pictures appearing in publica- 
tions are frequently inadvertently 'flopped! and printed backwards. 
(Would that left-handed shells were as plentiful in nature as are 
those appearing in periodicals!) The present book is no exception: 
The cone shell plate on page 8, and Cepaea nemoralis, pages 16 and 
64, are all reproduced 'backwards,! Incidentally, the Physa snail 
illustrated in the frontispiece and on page 45 is printed correctly; 
this genus of freshwater snails normally have sinistral shells, The 
imax plate on page 86 is exceedinly dark in the reproduction. 
Depicted on the front of the dust jacket is a beautif 4 
ul pink and pur 
plish nudibranch, Coryphella pedata, and on the jacket pee also it 
full color, Simnia ope on soft coral. "Snails and Slugs" is 
worthwhile as Karl's last book, even if it had no other commendation. 

William E. Old 
American Museum of Natural History 
