SAN DIEGO       SHELL CLUB

         THE FESTIVUS
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    The Festivus CONTENTS FOR 2010-2011:

            
 Volume XLII                        August 12, 2010                            Number 8

         
Program for the Club's August 19, 2010, meeting
    Greg Rouse, Professor of Marine Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will give
    an illustrated talk on the work of scientists from Scripps, Caltech, and Indiana State who
    have been studying methane seeps that form hard carbonate rock off the Pacific coast of
    Costa Rica using submersibles during cruises in 2009 and 2010. One outcome has been
    over 50 new animal species, including a series of bivalves and gastropods. 83.
         
         Club News
    The San Diego Shell Club Meeting, 17 June 2010; The September Party; The Club's
    Website; News about the Club LIbrary; Upcoming US Shells Shows from August-
    December 2010. 84.
          
    Articles
    Hewitt, Susan J. A New Locality for Vasum globulus (Gastropoda, Turbinellidae, Vasinae):
      The Island of Stint Eustatius, Leward Islands, West Indies. 85-88.
    Hertz, Jules. Report of the Combined AMS/WSM Meeting, 2010. 89-91.
    Wiedrick, Shawn. Additional Records of the Newly Described Muricopsis mcleani from the
      Golfo de Mexico. 92.
          
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    Volume XLII                         July 8, 2010                                  Number 7

     Program for the Club's July 15, 2010, Meeting
    Lindsey Groves of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will give a slide
    presentation on the history of Haliotis from the Late Cretaceous, when it first appeared in
    southern California, to the Recent. 75.
               Note: The July 8, 2010, meeting was cancelled. Lindsey Groves' presentation will be
             rescheduled and announced in
The Festivus at a later time.
            
    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, 17 June 2010; The September Party;
    The Club's Website; Upcoming Program in August. 76.  

    Articles
    Garfinkle, Elizabeth A.R. Intraspecific Variability of the Shells of Sinezona rimuloides
          (Carpenter, 1865). 77-81.        
    Negus, Rick. Unusual Location for Latirus mediamericanus. 82.
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    Volume XLII                      June 10, 2010                                   Number 6

    Program for the Club's June 17, 2010, Meeting
    "World of Islands: The Use of Shells in Oceania." Terry Rutkas, of the Pacific
    Conchological Club, will give an illustrated presentation on how humankind took its first
    step into the Pacific, 40,000 years ago. Rutkas says it will likely surprise the audience to
    learn why humans would not have progressed as far as they have without seashells. 63.

    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting 20 May, 2010; Addition to the Roster;         
    Conchologists of America Convention, August 27-31, 2010; The September Party;
    Upcoming Programs for 2010. 64.

    Articles
    Wood, Wendell. California Butter Clam, Saxidomus nuttalli, a Northern Range Extension
    to Crescent City, California. 65.
    Groves, Lindsey T. Catalog of Recent and Fossil Cypraeidae and Eocypraeidae: 2005
         Through 2009. 66-72.
    Farmer, Wes, and Carole Hertz. Having Fun at the Auction Potluck, 2010.72-73.       
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     Volume XLII                 May 13, 2010                                          Number 5

    Program for the Club's May 20, Meeting
    "Rare Cowries of the World." David Waller will present around the world and ending in La
    Jolla, California, where he found his first cowrie. We will set anchor at a number of well
    known locations for shell collecting and show some photos of some rare cowries of the
    region. No voyage would be successful without a map, so we will explore the meaning of
    the word "rare," as it applies to these magnificent shells, before getting underway. 55.
             
    Club News
    The Auction/Potluck--2010. Missed the Roster. The AMS/WSM 2010. 56.

     Articles
     Dees, Robert. Learning to Clam along Oregon's Central Coast. 57-60.
    Pister, Benjamin. Stramonita biserialis at Point Loma, California. 61.
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    Volume XLII                  April 8, 2010                                           Number 4

    Program for the Club's April Meeting
    There is no regular meeting this month.The Club will instead hold its annual auction and
    potluck event. Contact Carole Hertz for more information

    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting of 18 March, 2010, by Paul Tuskes. Report
    on the Bay Area Malacologists Meeting , March 20, 2010, by Gene Coan. 42.

    Articles
    Vendrasco, Michael J., Susannah M. Porter, Artem V. Kouchinsky, Guoxiang Li, and
    Christine Z. Fernandez. Shell Microstructures in Early Mollusks. 43-54.
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    Volume LXII                  March 11, 2010                                      Number 3
       
    Program for the March 18, 2010 Meeting
    "Pteropods and Heteropods and the Danger of Ocean Acidification Due to Increasing
    Carbon Dioxide." Presenter Dr. Victoria Fabry, a biological oceanographer at the
    University of California, Santa Barbara, has been focusing her research on the sensitivity
    of calcareous organisms, such as the planktonic molluscan pteropods and heteropods,
    and marine ecosystems to elevated carbon dioxide and ocean acidification.

    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting 18 February, 2010; An Announcement from
    Bob Yin; It's Almost Auction Time: April 17, 2010. 30.

    Articles
    Hewitt, Susan J. Hyotissa mcgintyi (Bivalvia, Gryphaeidae) from Two Islands in the
         Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, West Indies, with Notes on the Genus. 31-34.
    Hewitt, Susan J. A Three-Minute Survey of the Marine Mollusks of the Island of Sint
         Eustatius, Leeward Islands, West Indies. 35-38.
    AMS/WSM 2010 San Diego, California, June 26-July 1, 2010. 38.
    Hertz, Carole M. In Remembrance of Margaret Mulliner 1926-2010. 39.

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    Volume LXII                  February 11, 2010                                 Number 2

    Program for the February 18, 2010 Meeting
    "Communities Deep and Shallow in San Diego." Presenter Wendy Enright received her
    Masters degree in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and has  
    been at the City of San Diego since 2001. She was first in the Ocean Operations field
    group and has been in the Taxonomy group since 2008. She will present her talk on
    deep-water mollusks, highlighted with slides of these creatures.13.

    Club News
    The January 21, 2010, San Diego Shell Club Meeting [notice of cancellation of the
    January 21 meeting due to severe weather conditions]; To All Our Shelling Friends
    [Invitation to the Club's Annual Auction/Potluck on Saturday, April 17]. 14.

    Articles
    Skoglund, Carol, and Carole M. Hertz. Cirsotrema Togatum Hertlein & Strong, 1951
        (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae), a Variable Species or Three Distinct Species? A
        Preliminary Study.15-25.
    Hertz, Jules. The Fourteenth Annual SCUM Meeting. 26-27.
    Hertz, Jules. Notice of Two Upcoming Meetings: Mark Your Calendars [Notice of the
         upcoming joint annual meeting of the American Malacological Society and Western
         Society of Malacologists, June 26, 2010, in San Diego; also of the Conchologists of
         American Convention in Boston, August 27-31]. 27.
    Tuskes, Paul. 2010 Mission Bay Low Tides. 28.
    Tuskes, Paul, preparer. San Diego Shell Club Membership List, 2010.

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    Volume XLII               January 14, 2010                                  Number 1

    Program for the January 21, 2010, Meeting
    "Pteropods and Heteropods and the Danger of Ocean Acidification Due to Increasing
    Carbon Dioxide." Dr. Victoria Fabry, a biological oceanographer at the University of
    California Santa Barbara,has been focusing her research on the sensitivity of calcareous
    organisms, such as the planktonic molluscan pteropods and heteropods, and marine
    ecosystems to elevated carbon dioxide and ocean acidification. 1.
    Note: The Club's January 21 meeting was cancelled due to severe weather conditions.

    Club News
    Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, November 19, 2009; A New Member Joins
    The Festivus Scientific Review Board; The Club's Annual Christmas Dinner Party, 2009;
    Dues Are Due; The Fourteenth Annual SCUM Meeting. 2.

    Articles
    Valentich-Scott, Paul. New Insight on Galeommatid Bivalves (Bivalvia, Galeommatoidea,
        Lasaeidae) Described by Olsson, 1961, from the Panamic Province. 3-9.
    Buck, Larry. John D. Jackson 1941-2009. 10.
    Hertz, Jules. A Selected Index to Volume XLI (2009).
    Hertz, Jules. Low Tides at San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. 12.
                               
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