>Date:    Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:23:40 -0500
>From:    Bobbi Cordy <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Shell Authors
>
>Dear Shellers:
>
>We are looking for information on Shell Authors.  We did an exhibit
>about 12 years ago on this subject and would like to resurrect it and
>bring it up to date.
>
>We have info on Swainson, Linne, LaMarcque, Dall..
>
>Haven't been able to sort out the five Sowerbys...
>
>Would like information on U.S. authors.
>
>Harry Lee..I believe you sent us some info 12 years ago when you judged
>this exhibit...I have dug through all our archives but can't find
>anything.
>
>I do have information from History of Shell Collecting by Peter Dance.
>
>If anyone can point us in the right direction, we would appreciate it.
>
>Shellingly,
>
>Jim & Bobbi Cordy
 
Here are afew handy references on shell people:
 
van Winkle Palmer, K.  1966.  Who were the Sowerbys?  Sterkiana  23:1-6 + 1
plate.
 
Abbott, R.T., and M.E. Young (eds.).  1973.  American Malacologists: A
national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private
shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born
between 1618 and 1900.  American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia.
Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia.  494 pp.
 
Abbott, R.T. (ed.).  1975.  American Malacologists: A national register of
professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors.  1975
Supplement.  American Malacologists, Greenville, Delaware.  Economy
Printing, Easton, Maryland.  495-609. (pagination continued from first
edition).
 
I also have 80+ citations of obituaries or biographies of freshwater shell
people.  Art Bogan I and I are going to try to include these references in
a review paper on freshwater mussel taxonomy and the literature (submitted
to the Journal of the North American Benthological Society) but I don't
know if it will fly.  I can provide the references on request.
 
 
 
Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
607 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
217/333-1623
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