Speaking about the Compendium, there are two copies for sale at present on
e-Bay.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monfils, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Types O' Typhis


> Hi Ellen,
>
> Sounds like a great specimen!  Don't pay too much attention to the
> designations "common", "uncommon", and "rare" in the Compendium.  Many of
> them are very misleading.  Some of them may have been correct when the
book
> was published, but are not currently so.  Others are just way off the
mark,
> and were from the start.
>
> Yes, pinna means feather, and pinnatus means feathered, or resembling a
> feather, or - in english - pinnate.
>
> Paul M.
>