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Shirley Slack-Smith : [Field notebook] : Albany [07/04/1977-09/05/1977]
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07/04/1977-08/05/1977
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[Field trip to Albany region by Shirley Slack-Smith from 07/04/1977-09/05/1997 to collect land, marine and freshwater molluscs. Brief daily notes on collecting and daily activities given. Accompanied by Miss Christine Frawley, Mr Alan Lockhart, Mrs Lorraine Bevan[?], Mrs Fran [Bevan[?]] nee Bysevelt, Miss Yvonne Coles, Mrs Margaret Youngs. An abbreviated summary of dates, and specimens collected follows]
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09/04/1977 
 Jarrah-Marri Forest at Torbay Inlet; Map 1:500000 Series R412 Sheet S1.50-E Grid Reference 572 673; [Collecting not specified]
Bank of Inlet; Grid Reference 566 673; unidentified Mesodesmatids
Swamp at edge of Lake Powell off Elleker - Grasmere Rd; Grid Ref. 573  674; [Collecting not specified]

10/04/1977
Moss on rocks on slope above Barker Bay Beach; 592 (or 3) 669.5; dead Bothriembryon and ?Paralaoma
Karri, Tingle and Banksia grove S of Little Grove; 586 666.5; dead Bothriembryon in leaf litter and on burned ground, 1 live Bothriembryon.
11/04/1977
Torbay Channel; one live Bothriembryon kingii, dead shells, weevils, one dead B. melo.
19/04/1977
Under rocks on E banks of Kalgan River estuary, just upstream of Lower Kalgan Bridge; ellobiids, Venerupis, Katelysia and Bembicium auratum.
23/04/1977
Area W of Rushy Point to W of Frenchmans Bay Rd;GR 584 669; dead Bothriembryon kingii & melo, live B. kingii - 1 in litter 3 others on Acacia.
Area S of Little Grove; GR 586 666.5; minutres (Paralaoma etc) in bark at base of Karri (or Tingle) - damp below surface, Oxychilus.
24/04/1977
E side of road W of N end of Goode Beach, Vancouver Peninsula; GR 592 668; dead Bothriembryon (2 spp.)
25/04/1977
Reserve S side of road before turnoff on South Coast Highway before turnoff to Marbellup Rd; GR 575 678; no snails.
Peppermint Tree litter (Agonis flexuosa) near beach, Cosy Corner Road to Cosy Corner; GR 564 669; Oxychilus, Paralaoma, Insullaoma.
Lookout above Hartons Beach; GR 562.5 663; no snails in low heath & Peppermint.
Karri forest, near Torbay Head (NE of Lake William); GR 561.5 666.5; Oxychilus, Gratilaoma?, no trace of Bothriembryon, 4 B. jacksoni under bark and on trunk of karri trees.
30/04/1977
Seal, tag AM107; snout to anus 82cm, anterior flippers (front posterior edge 22cm anterior edge 26cm); buried 18' from toilet wall to beach, 12" deep on N side of shrub, at Goode Beach.
08/05/1977
Trip to Porongurups accompanied by BRU and JMS-S.
1; on slopes of Karri Marri forest, within private property on Millinup Pass; GR 592 714; Gratilaoma & one other species in leaf & bark litter.
2; Laterite - On Millinup Road just E of Wansborough Walk turnoff just S of Mira Flores & Marmabup Rock; one Gratilaoma? & 2 juvenile Bothriembryon (& very small) under boulders - dry.
3; Just E of Mira Flores Hut on Wansborough Walk in private land; GR 585 716; minutes in crevices and granite slopes.
4; Top of Wansborough Walk on the Devils slide, on granite slope; GR 586 717; few minutes under rocks on soil.
5; Same area of above, but under bark of karri trees & in litter & close undergrowth; 2 spp. (Gratilaoma and other same as at 1)
6; Karri forest, on new track N of Mira Flores Hutt running along edge of Park in valley; same assemblage of 2 spp.
09/05/1977
Trip to Currinup area accompanied by BRW.
Collected in patch of Karri-Casuarine forest S of Torbay Head (same as collected on 25-IV-77), Bothriembryon jacksoni, and Gratilaoma, also collected stump and 2 pieces of trunk of Nothofagus.
 
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[Field trip to Albany region by Shirley Slack-Smith from 07/04/1977-09/05/1997 to collect land, marine and freshwater molluscs. Brief daily notes on collecting and daily activities given. Accompanied by Miss Christine Frawley, Mr Alan Lockhart, Mrs Lorraine
Bevan[?], Mrs Fran [Bevan[?]] nee Bysevelt, Miss Yvonne Coles, Mrs Margaret Youngs. An abbreviated summary of dates, and specimens collected follows]
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