Nora and Tom,

Could the book you are talking about be "Living Marine Molluscs" by C.M.
Yonge and T.E. Thompson? It is British but was first published in 1976.
It was pretty widely available in the U.S. for a time because Tucker
Abbott's American Malacologists Inc. distributed it.

Lynn Scheu
Louisville KY
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NORA BRYAN wrote:
>
> Tom
> Doesn't sound like my memory is any better does it!  I went to the University
> yesterday copying journal atricles on our local freshwater molluscs and I looked
> for that book but it wasn't there either.  That's where I got it before, so
> maybe it never existed in this world and I have two parallel lives!
>
> Nora
> Calagary, Alberta
>
> "Thomas E. Eichhorst" wrote:
>
> > Nora,
> >
> > You got me on the book, I just don't remember a British book from 1975 with
> > that information.  Please understand that doesn't mean a thing about its
> > existance.  As my wife will immediately agree, my memory isn't my best
> > characteristic/trait/strength -- and as the others aren't all that great, we
> > are in trouble.  I'll dig around in the bookcase tomorrow and see if by
> > happen-chance something turns up.
> >
> > Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA