A couple of weeks ago I walked into the Science Department of the largest
bookstore here in Amsterdam and on the table with new arrivals there were
THREE books with a (sliced) Nautilus shell on the cover. And the funny
thing: not one of them actually dealt with these interesting critters...

Marien
www.mollus.nl

> Interesting. There must be a lot of shells on book covers. So, here's the
> challenge to the fiction-lovers out there in ConchLand: What kinds of
shells
> are most commonly used by artists to illustrate book covers?
>
> Happy shell-dreams,
> Andy
>
> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> Geological Survey of Alabama
>
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