Dear Mel,
 
what are junk shells. As in my dictionary junk maybe bad shells up
to good or fair in quality. Maybe also  only halves of bivalves. Can you
explain to me it better.
So when winter passed I can collect a number of Austrian landshells,
also fresh dead to see the differences of the species. So I can
collect some more shells of inlandshells, also smaller species
amd microshells and will not throw away the specimens off less
quality. But they are always nice to see for the youngsters or for
 
schools.
Are you interested in such material.
yours Helmut from Innsbruck.
> To all Conch-l members,
>            The Long Island shell club has been distruibuting shells to
> children once
> a year for the last five years. This is done at a local nature fair. We
> usually distribute somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 to 2000 shells.
>             We desperately need all kinds of junk shells as we are almost all
> tapped
>  out. If anyone can spare some shells for us (they are tax donations) please
> send them to:
>                                                       Long Island Shell Club
>                                                       c/o Mel Springer
>                                                       2071 Waltoffer Avenue
>                                                       North Bellmore, N.Y.
> 11710
>
>       PS - Please post in your shell newspapers.
>               My many thanks to all in advance for their kindness.
>