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Thomas Watters Instructions for joining Conch-L are on the COA web site. June 2012 American Conchologist Page 3 In This Issue Editor's comments: I received the following from Harry Lee: "Dear Tom, Editor’s comments ---------------------------------------------------- 3 “I have been caught in a bald-faced inaccuracy (plus Sinistral peanut snail and polygyrid update. one of lesser import), and I think the record should be set Sequestered specimens, oversight, irony, and a failed strategy straight. with a happy outcome by Harry G. Lee --------------------------- 4 “In the article on partulid snails, etc. in the last issue (Lee, H.G., 2012) I made an inexplicable and heinous misiden- Fie to you! [or Φ 2 U] by Richard Petit --------------------------- 6 tification. The gentleman with the "cadaverous countenance" in Fig. 4 (p. 11), is Andrew Garrett, not William Harper Pease In Memoriam ---------------------------------------------------------- 6 as captioned. I owe thanks to Dr. Alan Kabat, who recalls the A shell show primer by John Timmerman ------------------------ 7 photograph from Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, where that dour-appearing but kindred spirit looked upon him A report on Gibberulus gibbosus (Röding, 1798) by for many long hours. An additional error pertains to Fig. 8, in Scott & Jeanette Johnson ------------------------------------------- 10 the caption of which I wrote: "Le Château be Balaine (some- times rendered Baleine), home to the Adanson family, was completed in 1850 and now serves as an upscale country inn Dealer Directory ------------------------------------------------------ 12 within a 20-hectare botanical garden in France." Dr. Danielle Humboldt squid - cannibalistic killers or just jumbo mollusks? Callen, Historian of the Family, Arboretum de Balaine, has in- Diving amongst “killer” cephalopods - photographing the formed me that the construction of the château continued until Humboldt squid by Charles Rawlings --------------------------- 14 about 1890, that it is not actually an inn, rather the residence Courteix-Adanson family, and that the surrounding land is bet- Alien invaders: Haminoea japonica in North America and ter termed a botanical arboretum (as indicated elsewhere in the Europe by Dieta Hanson -------------------------------------------- 19 text). The only explanation for the disconnect is my heavy reliance on Internet resources; lesson learned. A new land snail discovered in New Mexico (USA) by Tom Eichhorst -------------------------------------------------------------- 20 “Lee, H.G., 2012. Partulid snails, their collectors, and a pro- digious dynasty of French naturalists. American Conchologist Book Review: Antiguan Shallow-water seashells: A collection 40(1): 10-19. March [April]. with 18 years study and research of shoreline shells from Anti- “Harry G. Lee" gua and West Indies by Harry G. Lee --------------------------- 24 Unfortunately, I have to follow this with acknowl- Book Review: An Index for G.T. Poppe’s PHILIPPINE edgement of an error of my own. In the last issue, in Karen MARINE MOLLUSKS by Tom Eichhorst --------------------- 26 VanderVen’s article on shelling in Honduras, I credited several Book Review: John Edward Gray (1800-1875): his photographs of living mollusks to “author.” Karen was quick malacological publications and molluscan taxa by Tom to point out that she DID NOT take those photos, but that they Eichhorst -------------------------------------------------------------- 27 had been taken by Charles Rawlings. I should have recognized them as we have all seen his superb photos many times in this The 75th Annual Sanibel-Captiva Shell Show by Joyce magazine. So apologies to both Karen and Charles. Matthys ---------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Now please enjoy this issue. There should be something here 2012 Sarasota Shell Club Scientific Winners by Ron