Art:
        My wife just phoned Helen who is alive and well and now sort of
indignant with you, since you could have either phoned or writer her.
        She also wrote a series on Epitonidae in the Hawaiian Shell News
while I
was editor.  We even made it into a Supplement.
                Aloha,  Tom
 
At 05:53 AM 2/21/99 , you wrote:
>Can anyone on the West Coast tell me about the condition of Mrs.
>DuShane? I saw a note saying she "was" 91. I didn't like that
>implication. Mrs. DuShane published the authoritative works on
>Epitiniidae of the Eastern Pacific in the Veliger. As far as I know,
>none of her named species has ever been challenged. That's quite
>something.
>    Art
>
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