We could hold an "Academy Awards" for shells - with list of "best of
categories" (most beautiful, largest, ugliest, strangest etc) - for FUN!
This might however cause a lot of Conch-L traffic.
 
Art Weil wrote:
 
> Dear Ross;-
>    My suggestion would be to pick (say) 20 families and have a vote.
> Maybe 25. The results would not mean a thing, but they might be of some
> interest to people who need a life. ---like me. My first vote would be:
> Oliva-----rubrolabiata.
>     Art