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TEXAS CONCHOLOGIST Was Approved by a Vote of the Members at the November Meeting 4ALAC fOl T449 PUBLICATION OF THE CONCHOLOGY GROUP VOL. I, No. 1 (Reprint) of the OUTDOOR NATURE CLUB, Houston, Texas September, 1964 EDITOR: Liz Eubanks, Ph: Gr 3-1143 ASSOC. EDITOR: Helmer Ode, 3524 Tanglebriar Dr. Ph: .MO 4-9942 Pasadena, Texas 4811 Braeburn Dr. Bellaire, Texas REPORTING & CIRCULATION STAFF: Fern Heinke - Phone: MA 3-1524 Dorothy Kister - Ph. PA 3-2494 THE SEPTEMBER MEETING OF THE CONCHOLOGY GROUP will be held Friday the 18th, at 7:30 P. M. , at the United Gas Co. auditorium, 5813 Palms Center. Mrs. B. H. Bridges will be the guest speaker. CONCHOLOGY GROUP DUES ARE DUE! ! If you haven't already done so, please give your dollar to Kirs. Norma Oate s at the Sept. meeting, or mail to her at 5908 Charlotte, Houston 5. An active 1954-65 club year is planned., .don't miss out on the fun! AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION FOR THE CONCHOLOGY GROUP was unanimously approved at the Aug. meeting, at which time Liz Eubanks was elected editor for the 1964-65 year. Two majo~ problems need to be solved before the mechanics of this paper are smooth-working and your Editorial Staff hopes that no member who has suggestions or solutions to offer will be too shy to speak up at the meeting or call the Editor. There exists the problem of GETTING ACCESS TO A MIMEOGRAPH MACHINE on which to run the cut stencils (with the understanding, of course, that the Conchology Group will furnish paper and ink); several good members are willing to do the work of running the machine. THIS NEW-BORN PUBLICATION NEEDS AN APPROPRIATE NAME, which will be chosen by secret ballot at the September meeting. All suggested names will be listed on the slate; so if you have one to offer but cannot attend this meeting, please call it in to Liz Eubanks so it can be entered. Of course, only names not in use by other publications will be considered. SEND ALL MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION TO THE EDITOR. Good articles, short items, news, hints, and shelling experiences will always be needed and make good reading material. Letters to the Editor, including those containing construc- tive criticism, will always be welcome; and whenever possible, they will be printed in this paper. Those wishing to swap material with other collectors are invited to put a notice in the "Exchange" section. A "Cuestions from the Readers" column is planned; so please send in any you would like to have answered in print. If the Editorial Staff is unable to answer them, the cuestions will be printed anyway, in hopes that a reader may be able to furnish the answers. Active participation by all the readers will add a great deal of interest. Call the reporters anytime and give them your news about the hobby. WATER LIFE WITH THE SAN JACINTO GIRL SCOUTS By Mrs. T. L. Kister Take a group of active, friendly girls between the ages of 13 and 16, blue sky, San Luis Pass Beach; mix with a bonfire and hot dogs; and you have a good beginning for an interest in shell life. In May of this year, the San Jacinto Council of Girl Scouts asked and Tom and I to conduct a workshop for about 20 girls interested in the Water Life Badge. Nearly 30 girls signed up for the course, and of course it was impossible to turn anyone away that had even the slightest interest in shells. Mary Sutow helped tremendously with a talk on conservation and edible water life; and Buzzy Sutow had an exhibit on the _ecology of Mollusks which he had entered previously in the Houston Science Fair for students of junior and senior high school level. Needless to say, the girls were fascinated by all this display of knowledge and were more than anxious to start their own hunting. On a warm July evening, several car loads took off for Galveston. The avid shellers were rewarded with 25 different species. The tides were not just right; and darkness came much too soon; but this did not deter their enthusiasm or their appetites. Besides the outdoor excursion, the girls were treated with a visit to the B. H. Bridges' home to see their outstanding display of shell art. In addition to the above, Tom and I made instructions, literature, and shell exhibits available to them. The adults, as well as the girls, had fun. Miss Flower Follett spent part of her memorable vacation this summer at Los Mochis, Mexico, on the Gulf of California, where she enjoyed some beach shelling. Many different species were found; but Miss Follett is a new-comer to this hobby and doesn't have them all identified yet. We hope she'll borrow or buy the wonder- ful book, "Shells of Tropical West America" by Dr. A. Myra Keen, to help her with the naming of her ocean gems. We further hope she'll bring her finds to the October meeting, which is a workshop, so we can all get a chance to see them. Sunday, Sept. 6, the Eubanks family obtained only one shell from one dredge load taken in Galveston Bay, at a depth of 9 feet on a mud bottom. The shell was a living Glycymeris pectinata Gmelin . Subject to a vote of approval by the Conchology Group membership, the following policy for this publication is submitted: 1. The Editor will be elected annually at the same time as the group officers. 2. The Editor will appoint volunteers to take the positions of Associate Editor, Professional Consultant, Reporters (as many as are needed), and Circulation for the club year. 3. Ten issues will be published each year, on a monthly basis, beginning wihh August and ending with May. If at all possible, they will be mailed approxim- ately one week before the monthly meeting of the group. 4. The number of pages will vary, at the descretion of the Editorial Staff, accord- ing to the material on hand; but the average of 4 pages is expected at this time. 5. No free advertising will be printed. 6. One FREE copy only will be sent to interested,, prospective subscribers; to receive this publication regularly, one must be either a PAID-TO-DATE MEMBER of the Conchology Group, or a PAID SUBSCRIBER (see #7). 7. Non-members of the Outdoor Nature Club Conchology Group may subscribe to this publication with a letter requesting it and a payment of $2. 00 per year. All subscribers are urged to correspond and contribute material for publicat- ion. 8. The Editor (or Associate Editor, when in charge) is responsible for the quality of the publication; and therefore must have authority to decide what is or is not to be printed, and to make minor corrections and/or changes in material sent in for publication. 9. The Editorial Staff is not responsible for the validity of articles sent in by collectors; for both beginners and advanced collectors do sometimes make incorrect identifications of shells. 10. Those contributing material for publication are asked to use the proper (Latin) names of the species in their reports or articles; common names alone without the scientific names will not be printed. 3 endeavor to maintain and increase the 11. The entire Editorial Staff will at all times in each issue scientific merit of this publication, and will try to have material advanced that will be of interest to the beginner, local, world-wide, and more amateur collector. end of Your Editor and family spent a few days in August shelling on the southern including red and Padre Island, Texas. We found the jetty quite rich in marine life, Brachidontes exustus, black sea urchins, starfish, Isognomon alatus (small ones ), cluster of pink living coral and Thais haemastoma Area imbricata , a lovely with floridana (which were quite unlike the local ones; these were smaller, a to be the heavier shell, less orange inside the aperture; this form appears to me same as those found in the Florida Keys). In the bay at low tide, we took living Busycon contrarium , Neritina virginea , Anachis avara , Littorina ziczac , Mercenaria campechiensis, Chione cancellata , Bulla striata , and Nassarius >_ibex . We collected several other species in dead condition. We met Mrs. Allen, an active member of the Port Isabel Shell Club and enjoyed talking shells with her. Nothing spectacular found this trip, but we did enjoy a shelling try in an area new to us. Dr. W. W. Sutow spent some vacation time in California, where he did some shelling and attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Malacological Union. He also enjoyed meeting and visiting with Dr. A. Myra Keen, one of the most well-known and respected malacologists in the United States. Your editor hopes that Dr. Sutow might find time to write some of his experiences of shelling along the Pacific coast and attending this meeting. A SHELL COLLECTOR'S VACATION IN THE FLORIDA KEYS by Liz Eubanks Though we have had many successful shelling expeditions around the beautiful little islands that trail from the southern tip of Florida, this June vacation spent there seemed e*tra special. This time, instead of a quick overnight trip from Jacksonville. Florida, we had to drive some 1600 miles from Pasadena, Tex. , to reach our desti- nation; and this was no small effort, since we were pulling our boat. It seemed that wonderful to once again be shelling in crystal clear water. In the Florida Keys, an area much like the West Indies, shellers find beachcombing most unproductive, and must go out into the water where the elusive Mollusks live to obtain worthwhile specimens.
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