Welsh Journals

torrid deserts to oceanic deeps. From earliest times man has fed on them and admired their beauty, used them as currency, tools, orna- ments or religious symbols. Cockles, conches, chitons, cowries; winkles and whelks; scallops, sea slugs, scorpion shells are known to us all. We are not so familiar with the Precious Wentletrap, Roadnight's Volute found by a Mrs. Roadnight on an Australian beach, or Banded Murex, huge mounds of which may still be seen by the walls of Sidon having yielded their royal purple to Solomon's robe or the sails of Cleopatra's fleet against Actium. Peter Dance, an experienced conchologist, deals concisely with a wide subject, both scientifically and in its association with man. There are many beautiful and some quite fantastic photo- graphs. The author is Assistant Keeper at the National Museum of Wales, which has a particularly fine shell collection. WANTED NATURE IN WALES Volume 2 No. 4, Volume 5 No. 1 and Volume 7 No. 1. Price and postage paid. HON. GENERAL SECRETARY, WEST WALES NATURALISTS' TRUST, LTD., 4, VICTORIA PLACE, HAVERFORDWEST. D.M.