Dear Conch-L Friends (currently spanning two centuries):
This is a delightful site.  If you do not know U.S. freshwater molluscs,
please look at this, it will convince you these are great shells.
p.s. Martin: P. capax is indicated as coming from southwest Missouri, it
never has been found there.  Do you mean southeast Missouri?, and the
pictured Proptera leptodon is a shell of P. fragilis.
Peace and great shells to you in the upcoming century.

Alan Gettleman
Merritt Island, FL

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> To all:
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> Former generations gloried in conquest and built nations.  It is left to us
> to spin webs.  I have been working on a site for some time, adding and making
> changes, and  would like to share the work so far and put it up for comment,
> particularly from the professional community specializing in this field.
> Please have a look.  It is my hope to create a space free of commercial glitz
> and clutter, and in some way benefit freshwater mollusks in their vulnerable
> habitat.  The URL is
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> http://members.aol.com/mkohl1/FWshells.html
>
> Happy New Year to all! ... It won't even look like a date without that "19"
> -- an address, maybe? -- and none of us will live to see another "C" in a
> current Roman Numeral date!  Thanks,
>
> Martin Kohl