At 10:04 AM 8/7/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi everyone.   Can anyone help with the dates for the Jersey Cape shell show
>and the Philadelphia shell show?  Are these dates ever listed in American
>Conchologist?   Thanks much.   Ron Lewis
 
Hi Ron,
 
Yes, the American Conchologist usually carries COA Awards Chairman Donald
Dan's Shell Show Calendar in the June and December issues.  The Summer and
Fall listing was inadvertently left out of the June issue and yours truly
didn't catch the printer's omission until the magazine was already in final
press run, when I was asked about a show chairman, went to my proofs to
find the answer, and found the entire article missing. (Yeah, I know, blame
it on the printer!)
 
It is also usually listed on the Conchologist's Network, COA's Internet Site
<http://coa.acnatsci.org/conchnet/>
but our faithful, capable and hardworking  webmistress, Debbie Wills, is
deeply involved in wedding plans for a daughter (happy date:  August 15)
and so is taking some needed time away from her html duties!
 
Here is the entire Summer and Fall listing as Donald Dan sent it to me back
in early May. Included is Don's phone and address and email address if
anyone needs it.
 
Lynn Scheu
 
 
        1998 SUMMER & FALL
        SHELL SHOWS AND MEETINGS
        ________________________
 
 
Jul.  11-12  Keppel Bay Shell Show, Yeppoon, Queensland
             Australia
             Jean M. Offord, 277 McDougall St.,
             N. Rockhampton, Qld. 4701, Australia   (79) 283-509
 
Jul.  19-23  Conchologists of America Annual Convention
             Orlando, Florida
             Linda Koestel, 1072 Grizzly Court
             Apopka, FL 32712-3059                (407) 880-1176
                                    E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Jul.  25-26  Townsville Shell Show, Townsville, Queensland
             Australia
             Glenda Rowse, 19 Farrell Street
             Kirwan 4814, Queensland, Australia     (77) 732-817
 
Jul.  25-30  AMU/UNITAS Combined Meeting, Washington, DC
             Bob Hershler, MRC118, Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology
             NMNH, Smithsonian Institution
             Washington, DC 20560                  (202) 786-2077
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Aug.  20-22  Jersey Cape Shell Show, Stone Harbor, New Jersey
             Jersey Cape Shell Club, P.O. Box 124
             Stone Harbor, NJ 08247                (609) 653-8017
 
Sept. 19-20  International Shells & Fossils Bourse
             Ottmarsheim, France
             Michel Rioual, 2 Rue des Vergers
             68490 Ottmarsheim, France           (3) 89-26-16-43
 
Sept. 18-20  North Carolina Shell Show
             Kure Beach, North Carolina
             John Timmerman, 206 Quail Ridge Road
             Wilmington, NC 28409-2637            (910) 452-0943
 
Sept. 26-27  Central Florida Shell Show, Orlando, Florida
             Darryl & Helen Kwait, 1329 Sterling Oaks Dr.
             Casselberry, FL 32707                (407) 695-3887
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Oct.  2 - 4  Annual German Shell Fair, Oehringen, Germany
             Kurt Kreipl, Hoehenweg 6            (49) 7941-62826
             D-74613 Oehringen-Cappel, Germany    FAX 7941-62065
 
Oct.     31  British Shell Collectors' Club Shell Show
             London, England
             Kevin Brown, 12 Grainger Road
             Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 6PQ, England (181) 568-8333
 
Nov.  7 - 8  Philadelphia Shell Show
             Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
             Al Schilling, 419 Linden Ave.
             Glenside, PA 19038                    (215) 886-5807
 
 
DONALD DAN
Chairman, COA Award Committee
6704 Overlook Drive
Ft. Myers, FL 33919, U.S.A.
 
Tel. (941) 481-6704
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