My most memorable self collected specimen was a chipped Busycon canaliculatum with a hole in its back. It was in a shallow, sheltered cove on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I was wading on a muddy sand bottom, not much more than ankle deep, amid thousands of live Nassarius obsoletus, and scattered dead shells of moon snails, Busycon whelks, oysters and other bivalves. I had already picked up several large dead Polinices and Busycon, checked inside them for smaller snails which might have taken refuge there, then discarded them. I had found a few Urosalpinx cinerea and Eupleura caudata, plus some Crepidula plana and Crepidula convexa. I had also found a few live Polinices and Busycon. After wading a half mile down the beach, I turned and started back, wading a little farther from shore. I came upon another large Busycon shell, lying aperture side down. I knew it was dead because it had a half inch hole in its back. I rolled it over with my foot, to get a look inside. Nothing was obvious, and I was in a bit of a hurry to get going, so I continued on my way. But something about that shell just seemed odd. So I went back and picked it up. It did look kind of strange, but the reason didn't hit me for a moment. It was sinistral, the only sinistral Busycon canaliculatum I had ever seen! I friend of mine here in Rhode Island also has a self-collected sinistral B. canaliculatum, only she collected hers indoors. She was in a shopping mall, where there was a boating display set up out in the corridor area. The display had a nautical-looking rail around it, made of rope and brass, and beneath the rail, on the floor, was a line of Busycon shells, which encircled the entire display. She was standing at the rail, looking at the boats, when she happened to glance down, and there at her feet was a sinistral Busycon, which she subsequently acquired (whether through official channels or not I am not certain). Paul M.