Shell collectors from all over America come to these white beaches for what
conchologists declare to be some of best collecting shores in the world.
Most of us, I suppose, have been conchologists at some time.
Mr Lightbourn said: 'There are quite a number of shell clubs around the world and probably the biggest is the Conchologists of America.
He added: 'Quite recently the name for shell collectors has been changed from conchologists to malacologists - a term which refers not only to the shells, but also to the study of the animals inside them.
Especially in groups exhibiting great variation in color pattern and shell morphology, early
conchologists tended to describe almost every minor variety as a species.
This research was often aided by local conchologists, many of them women collectors (Williamson 1894).
Oldroyd were the resident conchologists and both were able to add extensively to their collections with Oldroyd's local collection passing 500 hundred species (Ritter 1902a).
The study was financially supported by a grant from the
Conchologists of America, Inc., US-MEXUS, and by CONACYT (Project 31566 N).
Holmes, "harem j" of FHL, and acknowledges support from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) and the
Conchologists of America.
In 1890, she was a founding member of the short-lived organization called the American Association of Conchologists. From 1893-1898, she served as secretary of the Issac Lea Conchologist Association of the Agassiz Association (Coan 1989).
(35) The Stanford box contains material associated with the American Association of Conchologists including a letter its President John Campbell sent to Williamson, dated May 5, 1890, welcoming her as the first lady member of the association (Keen 1981).
(38) The Conchologists: Searching for Seashells in 19th Century America, Library of Congress June 22, 2015 by Jennifer Harbster, Library of Congress blog, https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2015/06/the-conchologistssearching- for-seashells-in-19th-century-america.
Holmes, "harem j" of Friday Harbor Laboratories, and support from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) and the
Conchologists of America.
This research was generously supported by the Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research, a
Conchologists of America Research Grant, and a Grant-in-Aid of Research from Sigma-Xi, and The Scientific Research Society awarded to J.R.D.
NSF grant 9903030 to David Jablonski, the
Conchologists of America, the Link Foundation and Smithsonian Marine Station, and the University of Chicago Hinds and Gurley Funds provided additional support.
