>Hi Lynn and Nora,
>
>"The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells" is a fairly
>good little book, except that it has the problem that all the Audubon books
>have of having the photo pages and the write-ups of the shells in different
>sections, so you have to jump back and forth. It's small, and has a plastic
>cover, and each species had a nice description including interesting notes.

It also has the disadvantage of organizing the photos apparently by giving
them to someone with no knowledge of the shells and asking them to group
the photos that look alike.  The most drastic example is the odd photo of
Gastrochaena, which was grouped with the bubbles.

Dr. David Campbell
"Old Seashells"
Department of Geological Sciences
CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315 USA
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug