Dear Fred,

I made the call, and it worked! The dispatcher
said all was well and that he'd received quite a
few other calls requesting your book.

I'm looking forward to using it.

Thanks,
Harry


At 04:44 PM 3/27/2010, you wrote:
>Everyone,
>
>I'm very pleased to be able to announce the long-awaited:
>
>Grimm, F. Wayne, Robert G. Forsyth, Frederick W. Schueler, & Aleta
>Karstad. 2009 [2010]. Identifying Land Snails and Slugs in Canada:
>Introduced Species and Native Genera. Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
>Ottawa. iv+168 pp.
>http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/pestrava/escarge.shtml
>
>...and
>
>Grimm, F. Wayne, Robert G. Forsyth, Frederick W. Schueler, & Aleta
>Karstad. 2009 [2010]. Identification des escargots et des limaces
>terrestres au Canada: Espèces introduites et genres indigènes. Agence
>canadienne d'inspection des alimentes. Ottawa. iv+168 pp. (translation
>of Identifying Land Snails and Slugs in Canada, edited by Isabelle
>Picard). http://www.inspection.gc.ca/francais/plaveg/pestrava/escargf.shtml
>
>These are "targeted to academics, master gardeners, hobby collectors and
>CFIA and Canada Border Services Agency inspectors," and we're told
>they're available at no cost from CFRA by calling 1-800-442-2342.
>Presumably, such a call would have to be made during business hours,
>eastern time.
>
>We don't know how many copies CFIA is going to print, but as the
>perpetrators, we'll shyly say that the hard-copy versions are
>spectacular, leading off with a picture of the pink Cepaea nemoralis
>with the pale mid-axial band that we found crawling across the
>Mississagi Lighthouse campground, 9.5 km WSW Meldrum Bay, and winding up
>with the Limax maximus we found along the Dyers Bay Rd, 0.2 km SW Dyers
>Bay settlement, inspecting the portrait Aleta had painted of it.
>
>CD copies are also available; I haven't opened the CD to see how big a
>file it is. While this book is focused on introduced species, there's
>enough about the native genera to make it possible to get a grip on the
>conspicuous species of the native fauna from the generic accounts.
>
>This has been a long haul since the earliest documents proposing it,
>which date, on my hard drive, back to 1997, and even a long haul since
>Wayne unexpectedly died in 2005.  Our profound thanks to Frank Ross &
>Donna Richoux for supporting this project, and then to CFIA for taking
>it up, to Robert and Isabelle for providing the real malacology, and to
>Judy Courteau and Matt Keevil for all the help with field work and
>curation. Those who wonder what I contributed will note the inclusion of
>  nuanced sentences, such as the one on page 42, which concludes: "...we
>are reluctant to identify North American specimens with European species
>that are themselves controversial."
>
>This is the first work to treat the entire Canadian fauna of terrestrial
>Gastropods, and we hope it will spark a great increase of interest in
>the life history, ecological roles, and systematics of Canadian land
>snails & slugs. see http://pinicola.ca/slugwork.htm
>
>fred.
>------------------------------------------------------------
>          Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
>Bishops Mills Natural History Centre

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