
yew YORK SHELL CLUB NoTES No. 265 October 1980 Page 5 
MORRIS KARL JACOBSON 
: Memel, East P 
Born 1906." russia (now Klaipeda, Lithuania), December 29, 
Died: Melbourne, Florida, July 21, 1980. 
Education: B.S. - New York Universit 1928; - 
University, “1950. y, 1928; M.A. - Columbia 
Positions Held: Teacher of German, Spanish, French f 
L or Board of 
Education, New York City, 4935-1953, ; : 
Chairman, Department of Foreign Languages, Andrew 
Jackson High School, Queens, N ~ - 
Decne ; » New York 1953-1968 
Co-founder New York Shell Club 1949, 
First President New York Shell Club 1949-1952. 
Editor New York Shell Club Notes 1949-1959. 
Special Editor New York Shell Club Notes 1959-1980. 
President American Malacological Union 1954-1955. 
Associate in Malacology, American Museum of 
Natural History 1964-1980. 
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 
1943. Marine Mollusca of New York City. Nautilus 56(4):139-144 
(also, ibid. 57(1):31). 
1944 A molluscan "mass grave." Nautilus 57(4):133-135. 
mean of Spisula solidissima Dillwyn. Nautilus 51(3) : 
00-104. 
1945 A list of the Mollusca of Warren County, New York. Nautilus 
59(1) 226-29. 
On Triodopsis albolabris t+traversensis Leach. Nautilus 59(2): 
68- 
1946 Cepaea nemoralis in Rockaway Beach. Nautilus 60(1):2-4 (with 
Waltex mit). 
h Revista 
1949 A note on Chondropometes magnus Torre and Bartse _ 
Sociedad Malacologica "Carlos de la Torre" 7:6. 
In Pinar del Rio. Nautilus 62(3):78-86. 
1950 More on the status of Vallonia excentrica Sterki. Nautilus 
64(2) 270. 
The land snails of Jamaica (2 parts). 
of the Natural History Society of Jamaica, no. 
1951. Two new molluscan records from the New York Cit 
Nautilus 64(3):104. 


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