Great!
 Interested. and when should we get/buy a copy?

You're dredging in a canyon ?!! Deep seas are a kind of new frontier ; happy
to see books begin to be set.

O.Caro
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 12:44 PM
Subject: New book on deep sea out soon, chapter on molluscs


> I'm sort-of promoting this book, for which I loaned most (or all) of
> the shells illustrated, gave advice and had a last-minute draft check
> and caught some inverted and reversed images done by the publisher
> and not yet picked up by the author.
>
> I'ts being written by a Honors MSc Marine Sciences student, Peter
> Batson, here at Otago University, Dunedin (no, not Florida); though
> not specifically a mollusc person, Peter is very knowledgable.
>
> While it's on New Zealand fauna, it will be of much wider interest.
> Titled "Deep New Zealand", it is about the bathyal fauna (c300-2000m
> depth ie uppermost slope).
>
> It will be a little under A4 paper size, and all illustrations are
> color (part from a few old reproduced b&w drawings), and the photos
> are great. It includes quite a few cephalopods, including a neonate
> Architeuthis. Not sure whether it'll be paperback or hardcover.
>
> Due to technicalities of copyright permission for some images, it
> won't be marketed internationally, so I may be in a position to offer
> copies to listees, as suggested by the author. Price will hopefully
> be pretty low.
>
> I may be asked to do reviews of the book.
>
> I'll be out with Peter dredging a canyon tomorrow or Friday... wish us
luck!
>