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Vita Marina & Spirula Review

American Conchologist (VOL 23(4), p.18) published a great review of our magazine and newsletter for which we are very grateful. It only stimulates us to produce even better quality for you in the future. The full text of the review is given below.

There's a magazine on the strand, Vita Marina, which ought to be just the thing for a lot of shell collectors. It is an international quarterly on marine zoology, with emphasis on molluscs, and articles by Moolenbeek, Voskuil, Onverwagt, Kronenberg, Finet and others. Volume 41, No. I was devoted wholly to a "Review of the European Pectinidae," by H.P. Wagner, a heavily and beautifully illustrated monograph. Note that there's also a very informative little newsletter, Spirula, which goes along with the subscription. It contains book reviews, letters, shells on stamps info, a new species round-up and a very useful recently published literature listing, by families, as well as accounts of shelling trips.

Both are excellently done and highly recommended. They are both bilingual (English and Dutch), and the English translations are garble-free and fluent. Typographical errors are at a minimum in Vita Marina's 32 pages, which also have snazzy art work and graphics, many illustrations and some color plates.
Shelling is a worldwide hobby, our collections span the globe, and it's not a bad thing to get a better world view of conchology/malacology by subscribing to a foreign publication or two. U.S. prices: Surface Mail: $44, Airmail: $50. Vita Marina, Postbus 64628, 2506 Ca Den Haag, Netherlands.

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