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                                       Contents for 2009-2010

    Volume XLI                 November 12, 2009                                  Number 11

    Program for the November 18, 2009, Meeting
    Club member Benjamin Pister will present "The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative
    and the Establishment of Marine Protected Areas in Southern California. The
    presentation will discuss the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act, the latest initiative, and
    the process that has been going on to design the marine protected areas. Several
    proposals have been introduced by the Blue Ribbon Task Force and their
    recommendation will have been made by the time of this talk. Ben will show the
    different proposals focusing on San Diego and answer questions on why certain
    areas were chosen for protection under the Act. [139].

    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, October 15, 2009; Save the Date for
    the Christmas Party; Dues Are Due; The Fourteenth Annual SCAMIT Meeting.140.

    Articles
    Hertz, Carole M., and Barbara W. Meyers. A New Look at Cymatium (Turritriton)
    Gibbosum (Broderip, 1833). 141-158.  
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    Volume XLI                  October 8, 2009                                        Number 10

    Program for the October 15, 2009, Meeting
    Cathy Moser Marlett will present a program on the Seri people, now numbering
    around one thousand, who for millennia lived on the eastern shore of the Gulf of
    California. Their language and rich culture, threatened by increased contact with the
    outside world, provide a unique glimpse at how past Gulf peoples used the region's
    rich resources. The study details the Seri knowledge and use of mollusks. More than
    150 species have been identified: most are presented with their Seri names (more
    than 250) and ethnographic details. This presentation, a sampling of both shelled
    and unshelled mollusks, includes photographs, graphic illustrations, and
    ethnographic information. [129].

    Club News
    From the September Party, 12 September 2009; SCAMIT Talks Mollusks; The WSM
    Now Has a Blog; New Mollusk Book Announced; Save the Date for the Christmas
    Party. 130.

    Articles
    Paul Tuskes. Mission Bay Survey Update. 131-132.
    Gary R.M. MacDonald. In Memoriam: James Willard Nybakken (1936-2009).133-117.
            
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    Volume XLI                  August 13, 2009                                         Number 8

    Program for the August 20, 2009, Meeting
    Club member Paul Tuskes will talk about opisthobranchs in Mission Bay. His
    presentation will include underwater photos of the nudibranchs and their relatives.
    Paul will also discuss his two-year study of the Bubble Snail, Bulla gouldiana, with
    new information on its life history and predators.[113].

    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, July 16, 2009; Too Late for the Roster;
    The Club's Annual September Party, September 12, 2009; A Generous Donation to
    the Club; A Mini-Auction of Books. 114.

    Articles
    Jules Hertz. Report of the WSM Meeting, 2009. 115-117.
    Alicia Hermosillo. A Note on the Opisthobranch Mollusks of Rocas Alijos. 118-119.

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    Volume XLI                 July 9, 2009                                                 Number 7

    Program for the July 16, 2009 Meeting
    "Effects of Human Trampling and Seasonal Sand Movement on Micromollusks of
    Intertidal Algal Communities," presented by Sonya Huff, who received her Ph.D. from
    Scripps in 2005. Dr. Huff will begin her new position as a tenure track faculty member
    at Riverside City College in fall 2009. [101].  

    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, June 18, 2009; Too Late for the
    Roster; Upcoming Meetings of Interest; The Club's Annual September Party. 102.

    Articles
    Huber, Marcus. Name Changes for Two Well-Known Panamic Spondylids.103-111.

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    Volume LXI                  June 11, 2009                                             Number 6

    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting May 21, 2009; Too Late for the Roster;
    The Club's Mission Bay Survey Project; In Memoriam " Joseph "José" Johnston 1933-
    2009. 50.

    Articles
    Stebbins, Timothy D., and Douglas J. Eernisse. Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)
    Known from Benthic Monitoring Programs in the Southern California Bight. Special
    edition. 51-100.
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    Volume XLI                  May 14, 2009                                               Number 5

    Program for the May 21, 2009, Meeting
    "Antique Prints, Vintage Prints and Lithographs on Marine Life, Shells, Fish, and
    Birds."
    Ben Wollman of Wollman's Classic Prints, featuring steel and copper engravings and
    chromo and stone lithographs, will give a presentation on prints, the different kinds,
    and
    how they differ from reproductions. After the presentation, members will view
    selections of
    his prints laid out on a table. There will be no sales at the at the meeting; those
    interested
    will take Ben Wollman's card and arrangements for purchase can be made later. [41].

    Club News
    The Annual San Diego Shell Club Auction-Potluck, 2009; Donors to the Club's 2009
    Auction-Potluck; Rosemary Pierce, 1921-2009. 42.

    Articles
    García, Emilio Fabián. Sorting Out the Generic Placement of the Three Panamic
    Species
    Assigned to Eumetula Thiele, 1912. 43-46.

    Tuskes, Paul M. The Ark Clam Barbatia Reeveana from Mission Bay, 47.

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    Volume XLI                    April 9, 2009                                                 Number 4

    Program for the April 4, 2009, Meeting
    The annual Club Auction and Potluck replaces this month's regular meeting.

    Club News
    San Diego Shell Club Minutes, March 19, 2009; Too Late for the 2009 Roster; COA
    2009 Convention: Cruising the Suncoast, July19-23. [34].

    Articles
    LaFollette, Patrick. Malacological Literature on the Internet. 35-37.

    Hertz, Carole M. An Adventure at Playa Matanchén, Nayarit, México. 38-39.

    Bertsch, Hans. Review of Opistobranquios de Brasil by Francisco J. García García,
    Marta Domínguez Álvarez, and Jesús S. Troncoso. 2008. 39-40.

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    Volume XLI                     March 12, 2009                                            Number 3

    Program for the March 19, 2009, Meeting
    Kathy and Joe Kalohi of The Pacific Conchological Club will be showing pictures and
    displaying specimens collected from five days of scuba diving off of Arapawa Is. in
    the N/E corner of the South Island of New Zealand. [23].

    Club News
    San Diego Shell Club Meeting Minutes, February 19, 2009; Too Late for the Roster;
    The San Diego Shell Club's Annual Auction/Potluck. 25.

    Articles
    Tuskes, Paul, and Ann Tuskes. Influence of Habitat and Prey Selection of
    Pteropurpura festiva, the Festive Murex. 25-29.

    Hertz, Jules. The Thirteenth Annual SCUM Meeting. 30-31.
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    VOLUME XLI                      February 12, 2009                                        Number 2

    Program for February 19, 2009, Meeting
    Dr. Cynthia Button, "The California Red Abalone (Haliotis Rufescens) and Its
    Population Dynamics." Dr. Button earned her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Scripps Institution
    of  
    Oceanography. Her research included hundreds of dives in the kelp forests of the
    coast of
    California to study the life history characteristics of abalone and wavy turban shells.
    She is
    currently a post-doc at Scripps. [13].

    Club News
    San Diego Shell Club Meeting Minutes, 15 January 2009; Save the Dates; Committee
    Offices for 2009; 42nd Western Society of Malacologists (WSM) Annual Meeting,
    June
    23-27, 2009. 14.

    Articles
    Hewitt, Susan J. The Shallow-Water Patellogastropoda (True Limpets) of the Islands
    of Nevis, Leeward Islands, West Indies. 15-22. Dr. Hewitt is Field Associate in the
    Division of Invertebrate Zoology (4/2006-6/2008), American Museum of Natural
    History, New York.

    Attachment
    2009 Club Membership Roster

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    VOLUME XLI                        January 8, 2009                                                
    Number 1

    Program for January 15, 2009, Meeting:
    Paul Valentich-Scott, of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and a bivalve
    specialist, will present an interactive, educational, illustrated, and fun program on
    bivalves.  Attendees will work with bivalves and learn (or re-learn) their identifying
    characteristics  --and much more.  Don't miss this exciting program! [1]

    Club News
    San Diego Shell Club Meeting Minutes, 20 November 2008; The Club's Annual
    Christmas   Dinner Party. 2.

    Articles
    The Opisthobranch Fauna of Islas Tres Marías, Mexican Pacific. Alicia Hermosillo. 3-
    9.

    Low Tides at San Felipe, Baja California, México. Compiled by Jules Hertz. 10.

    Dues are Due.10.   

    Mission Bay Survey November 2007-2008: A Progress Report and Mission Bay
    Tides for 2009. Compiled by Paul Tuskes. 11-12.

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