Vindication after 37 or more years

摘要

As you can see to the right, I submitted a short note to the magazine of Sea and Shore published in the Spring 1975, issue. I discovered a small tear-shaped pearl from a Conus striatus that I had exchanged with an American shell collector, temporarily living in Kenya, East Africa. When I received this shell there was a distinct aroma that all shell collectors recognize and I could see part of the mollusk's flesh in the aperture. Before adding this to my collection I decided to clean the shell by soaking in fresh water and exchanging the water about every six hours or so to avoid developing Bynes Disease which would ruin the shell.