I am haveing no infermation regardeing the trueth of a roomer about a nuew
edishun of Abbot/Dance's Cumpendium.


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From: "Doug Stemke" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 3:07 PM
Subject: Books for a University library


> Hello All.
>
>    I'm currently in the enviable position at Elon University (North
> Carolina, USA) of haveing to purchase several books for the University's
> library collection (they are actually begging me to purchase more books).
> The University is a small University (about 5,000 students) is growing
> fast with a very active biology department. I have an extensive
> conchological library myself but wanted to get a sence of maybe 8 books
> for the collection.  They already blundered once and purchased the 1954
> copy of American Seashells rather than than the 1974 edition I had
> requested. That notwithstanding we have Abbot/Dances's Compendium and
> beyond that the typical Kingdom of the Seashells, a few East Coast/NC
> field guides, and a few old picture books.  But I was wondering what other
> books that you would see as great editions to a collection of this type (I
> would note that there currently are no scholars of Conchology at Elon).
>
> Also I heard a rumor that there was going to be a new edition to American
> Seashells, any trueth to that?
>
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