THE FESTIVUS
            Contents for 2008
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Volume XL                     January 10, 2008                                     Number 1

Program for  January 17, 2008, Meeting:
    "Hawaiian Shells and Their Habitats."  Paul Tuskes, Club Member. [I].

   Club News                 
    San Diego Shell Club Meeting, November 15, 2007; The Club's Annual
       Christmas Dinner Party, Saturday December 1; A Message from the Librarian;
       Dues Are Due. 2.

Articles
    New Distributional Information for Panamic Province Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda).
       Carol Skoglund. 3-19.
  
    Remembering Billee Gerrodette.  Carole M. Hertz. 20-21.

    Low Tides for 2008 at San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico.  Jules Hertz (preparer). 21.

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Volume XL                     February 14, 2008                                   Number 2

Program for February 21, 2008 Meeting:
    "Some Personal Perspectives of Arctic Marine Ecosystems."  Paul Dayton, Professor
             of Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. [23].

Club News
    San Diego Shell Club Meeting, January 17, 2007; Wes Farmer Becomes an
       Honorary Member; Mark Your Calendars and Save the Date; The Mission Bay
       Survey Project. 24.

Articles
    The Opisthobranch Fauna of the Archipielago de Revillagigedo, Mexican Pacific.
       Alicia Hermosillo and Terrence M. Gosliner. 25-34.

    San Diego Shell Club Membership List 2008. [35-37].
      
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Volume XL                      March 13, 2008                                  Number 3

Program for the Mach 20, 2008 meeting:
    "Sneaky Slugs in the Sea Or Mollusks Without Sea Shells (Or Bits of Shells)."  Nerida
             Wilson, post-doctorate of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. [35].

Club News
    San Diego Shell Club Meeting, February 21, 2008; Too Late for the Roster; Corrections
            to the Roster. 36.
Articles
    New Record of Agathotoma (Agathotoma) quadriseriata (Dall, 1919) (Gastropoda:
            Turridae).  Shawn Wiedrick. 37-38.

    The Auction/Potluck--2008. 38.

    Another way to Collect Shells: Buying on EBay.  David B. Waller. 39-42.

    The Twelfth Annual SCUM Meeting.  Lindsey T. Groves. 43-45.
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Volume XL                     April 10, 2008                                   Number 4

Program for April 26, 2008, Meeting:
    Club Auction and Potluck.  No regular meeting this month. [47].

   Club News
    San Diego Shell Club Meeting, March 20, 2008; The Club Has a New Address;
       The Western Society of Malacologists (WSM) June 4-8, 2008; SCAMIT Meeting
       'Bivalves 101', May 12, 2008; Too Late for the Roster. 48.

Articles
    Three Nomenclatural Notes on Panamic Bivalves.  Eugene V. Coan and Paul
       Valentich-Scott. 49-54.

    Octopus Senescence: Forgetting How to Eat Clams.  Roland C. Anderson, Jennifer
       A. Mather, and David L. Sinn. 55-57.

    Addition to the Twila Bratcher Critchlow Memorial Issue.  Lindsay Groves. 57.

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Volume XL                    May 6, 2008                                     Number 5

Program for May 15, 2008 Meeting:
    "The Cool Mollusks of Mission Bay."  Paul Tuskes and John LaGrange, co-chairs of the
       Club's Mission Bay Survey Project. [59]  

Club News
    The Club's Annual Auction/Potluck, April 26, 2008; The Club Has a New Address; Two
       Annual Meetings Announced; Too Late for the Roster. 60.

Articles
    Notes on the Association of Vesicomyids and Lucinoma (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in
       Southern California: Modern and Fossil.  Charles Powell, II and Lindsey T. Groves.
       61-68.

    Book News: Sea Shells of Southern Florida: Living Marine Mollusks of the Florida Keys
       and Adjacent Regions by Paula M. Mikkelsen and Rüdiger Bieler.  Reviewed by Paul
       Valentich-Scott. 69-70.

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Volume XL                    June 12, 2008                                     Number 6

Program for June 19, 2008, Meeting:
       "Marine Mollusks of Cabrillo National Monument: Successes and Failures in an Urban
         Environment."  Benjamin Pister, Club member and Park Biologist at Cabrillo National
         Monument. [71]

Club News
     Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, 15 May 2008; Recent Donations to the San
        Diego Shell Club; The Club Website Has a New Address. 72.

Articles
     The Many-Ribbed Ark Clam, Anadara multicostata, in Mission Bay, San Diego, California.
        Paul M. Tuskes. 73-75.

     First Record of the European Land Snail Trochulus striolatus in British Columbia,
       Canada (Pulmonata: Hygromiidae).  Robert G. Forsyth. 76-78.

      Mission Bay Survey Project--Selected Tides for 2008. John LaGrange and Paul Tuskes.
       78.

     Remembering the Bradners.  Carole M. Hertz. 79-80.  

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