Dear Aydin,

Thanks for acting as middleman.

I'll post this to the List-serve inasmuch as
others may meet with the same conundrum:

When I click on "Post a comment" on your website,
I get a dialog box that asks me for a word
identification - that's fine. Next is "Choose an
identity," followed by a choice of three such
identities: "Google/blogger," "other," or
"anonymous." Next is "Sign in with your Google
account" and a field to type in "username' and "password."

Since I am unaware of possessing a Google
account, I thought the process above to be a bit
daunting. Can you offer advice on passing through
this inquisition? This is not my first day of bumping up against this wall.

Harry


At 03:12 PM 10/25/2006, you wrote:
>Harry,
>Tim Pearce had trouble posting to the blog so I copied & pasted his
>comments myself. I will do the same with your comments. Other people don't
>have trouble posting comments.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Aydin
>
>On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:43:14 -0400, Harry G. Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Dear Aydin,
> >
> >That's a very informative blog to which you led
> >us (see below). I am especially impressed with
> >the illustration of the blind animal of the
> >little land snail, Helicodiscus parallelus (Say, 1821). You went on to
>write:
> >
> >"Say didn't give figures of his specimens. I
> >don't know if anyone published figures of this
> >species before Amos Binney did, as Helix lineata,
> >in 1857 in volume 3 of his Terrestrial
> >Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States etc.
> >However, Binney's drawing showing the shell from
> >the side doesn't look like a typical H.
> >parallelus. The spire is too high and the
> >aperture is too descending. Compare Binney's
> >drawing, reproduced below, with my photographs of
> >shells here and in my previous post."
> >
> >Since I am unable to navigate the "feedback"
> >process on your website, I'll revert to Conch-L
> >for a comment on the history of the iconography of H. parallelus.
> >
> >Pilsbry (1948:625) gave an abbreviated synonymy
> >of this species. A. Binney (1851: 260) reported a
> >dozen citations back to the original
> >description(s) by Say. Among these are four
> >illustrations. Two are in rare European works
> >(F鲵ssac and "Chemnitz second edition"), and two
> >in scarce American works, the earlier of which
> >was Binney (1840: pl. 22, fig. 6). This figure
> >(actually three as you demonstrate) is identical
> >to the one you cite (1857: pl. 48, fig. 1). The
> >remaining illustration appeared in the first
> >edition of Gould's Invertebrates of Massachusetts
> >(1840), and, if it is the same as that in the
> >second edition (1870, fig. 667, p. 405), it is an
> >excellent one, closely matching the shells your
> >photographs, and bearing little resemblance to the Binney illustrations.
> >
> >Harry

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