There are currently no plans for a revision of
Abbott & Dance's - Compendium of Seashells

However, Gary Rosenberg, et. al.
are writing a completely new replacement for it.
... not sure what the time table is, perhaps 1-3 years.

On American Seashells, yes, Jerry Harasewych owns the rights to it
and is working on the 3rd revision in his spare time,
... but it is still many years out.

Leslie

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From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Barney, Winston
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: Books for a University library

I am haveing no infermation regardening the trueth uf uh roomer
bout a nuew edishun of Abbot/Daince's Cumpendeum.

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From: "Doug Stemke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 3:07 PM
Subject: Books for a University library

Hello All.
I'm currently in the enviable position at Elon University (North Carolina,
USA) of haveing to purchase several books for the University's library
collection (they are actually begging me to purchase more books).

The University is a small University (about 5,000 students) is growing fast
with a very active biology department. I have an extensive conchological
library myself but wanted to get a sence of maybe 8 books for the
collection.  They already blundered once and purchased the 1954 copy of
American Seashells rather than than the 1974 edition I had requested. That
notwithstanding we have Abbot/Dances's Compendium and beyond that the
typical Kingdom of the Seashells, a few East Coast/NC field guides, and a
few old picture books.  But I was wondering what other books that you would
see as great editions to a collection of this type (I would note that there
currently are no scholars of Conchology at Elon).

Also I heard a rumor that there was going to be a new edition to American
Seashells, any trueth to that?

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