At 08:24 PM 1/21/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Paul and other Olividae specialists:
>
>There is a also a 38 year old mimeographed publication entitled "Catalogue
>of Recent and Fossil Olives" by John Q. and Rose L. Burch (Minutes of the
>Conchological Club of Southern California, #196, February 1960, pp. 46)
>which is an alphabetical species list of Olividae which includes original
>literature citations, designation of genera and synonyms.  It is an
>immensely useful publication for the Olive specialist (though there are no
>illustrations).  I wonder if any of our Conch-L members in southern
>California know if copies ever circulate?
>
>Rich Goldberg
>
 
I guess I'm getting around to answering this a little late but I have the
complete file of the Minutes of the Conchological Club of Southern
California which my father, John Q. Burch, wrote and edited.  This includes
the various supplements such as the Olividae report mentioned above.  I even
have--someplace--one or more separates of the Olividae report.  Mine are in
pretty good shape and probably could be xeroxed.  This is 46 pages and there
are probably at least that many other pages in the "Minutes" to which this
refers.  I can make copies of the report and the pages but I'm not sure how
soon since I'm now working on Foraminifera (and my tax return).
 
I'm really scooped on this since I just read the email from  Paul Drez
<[log in to unmask]> in which he offers to furnish xerox copies of the Report to
interested persons.  He made no mention, however, of the other pages in the
"minutes" about Olividae.  If enough persons are interested in getting
copies of them and let me know via email to [log in to unmask], I'll try to make
xerox copies of them.  Since I don't care about getting any specimens of
Olives in exchange, I'd like to get reimbursed for the cost including
postage.  If anyone had specimens of Foraminifera--especially from the
Pacific--we could make a deal.
 
             Aloha,   Tom Burch
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