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In the photograph the figures 1-4 represent a shell from Perth with the dorsal spots slightly confused; the other specimen
from Perth (not figured) which has been taken alive (female) has the margins bordered dorsally by a broad pale brownish-grey
zone and the dorsal spots very scarce. In both shells the interior is pale pink. The right photograph (fig. 5) represents the
base of a male specimen from Shark Bay in which the outer two-thirds of the base are suffused by rich orange (not well
recognizable in the photograph). In this shell the dorsum, which is almost unspotted, and the interior of the shell are
white.
The formulae of all these specimens indicating the length in mm, the relative breadth in percent of length, and the absolute
number of labial and columellar teeth (the anterior terminal ridge excluded) are as follows
I agree completely with the remarks made by Alison Kay (H.S.N., March, 1966) and by Harald Rehder (H.S.N., June, 1966)
regarding the evils of over-collecting live specimens of "rare" species. In addition to the need to protect molluscan
populations for the enjoyment of future generations of men, one could cite the potentially undesirable secondary effects of
upsetting natural predator-prey relationships, inter-specific competitive balances, etc.
There is another and much more fundamental philosophical point of view which needs to be stated, however. It has been
beautifully expressed by Henry Beston in The Outermost House (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., publishers) and is as
follows:
"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by
complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather
magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having
taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a
world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or
never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations,
caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
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