. Annual report - Western Society of Malacologists. Mollusks; Mollusks. geographic studies; to southern California two years later; and to the Gulf of California on several occasions starting in 1941. She also traveled to Europe four times, in search of type specimens of eastern Pacific species, visiting marine -stations to compile information for her course in biological oceanography, or attending meetings. Her key accomplishments were of three sorts. The first involved major compilations that stimulated much other work and public interest. In addition to the two editions of the Sea Shells of
. Annual report - Western Society of Malacologists. Mollusks; Mollusks. geographic studies; to southern California two years later; and to the Gulf of California on several occasions starting in 1941. She also traveled to Europe four times, in search of type specimens of eastern Pacific species, visiting marine -stations to compile information for her course in biological oceanography, or attending meetings. Her key accomplishments were of three sorts. The first involved major compilations that stimulated much other work and public interest. In addition to the two editions of the Sea Shells of Tropical West America, these included her work with Herdis Bentson listing all the records of Tertiary species in California; her field guide with Hubert Schenck to California Tertiary fossils; the keys to the molluscan genera of the northeastern Pacific; and her biblio- graphy and checklist of the fauna of the northeastern Pacific. The second main focus of her publications was the nomenclatural revisions she prepared for the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, together with many related petitions to the International Commis- sion on Zoological Nomenclature. These revisions included many on groups of bivalves and archaeo- gastropods in addition to those of special interest to her. Unfortunately, her extensive work on mesogas- tropods and neogastropods for the Treatise, the Nassariidae, and the Assmineidae, resulting in substantial manuscripts, now seems destined never to be published. Also belonging in this category are her papers on the type specimens of eastern Pacific species in European museums. Her third focus was taxonomic publications in various journal and museum serials on groups such as the Vermetidae, the Muricidae, the Cardiidae, the Veneridae, and the Sacoglossa. Myra Keen was AMU President in 1948, AMU Pacific Division Chairman in 1964, WSM President in 1970, a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and of the Geological Society of America, chairman of t
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