Vita Marina issues indexes every other volume, with all species (also non
molluscan) given, including synonyms and (by means of bold type face) to
species illustrated.

Gijs

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> Van: Jose Eduardo de Alencar Moreira <[log in to unmask]>
> Aan: [log in to unmask]
> Onderwerp: How to deal with magazine bibliography
> Datum: vrijdag 10 september 1999 22:36
>
> Hi again,
>
> Since my boss is out, things are a little bit easy going around here.
>
> A question to our experts.
>
> After years trying to buy the best books and magazines on conchology,
after
> receiving several copies of articles, now I have a bunch of them.
>
> Each shell I receive I try to check its identification. This is quite
easy
> when we deal with books, since they usually talk about families or
> malacological provinces or subregions.
>
> My question is: if you need to check for a shell (example: Strombus
> ochroglottis), how do you search for it in your magazines/articles? One
by
> one? Do you keep a kind of title database? If positive, how do you do it?
>
> I have about 4 years of subscription of Vita Marina, La Conchiglia and
> American Conchologist. I also have all issues of Siratus and several
copies
> of articles, but they are almost useless for me in this kind of search,
> since I do not have any index and obviously to check one by one to see if
> there is any info about a specific shell is time consuming and I have no
> patience to do it.
>
> Since I said that in this case my magazines are useless, suggestions of
> donations of my magazines are not welcome. Please I'd appreciate other
type
> of suggestions.  ;-))
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Eduardo Moreira
> Brasilia, Brazil