Word: conchophilist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the title-heading of "Compleat Conchophilist" [TIME, Sept. 16], I am happy to find that others enjoy and appreciate as much as I the joy, interest and advantages of "snail-watching," but regret the sense of levity with which you handled the subject...
...Heaton, retired civil servant and amateur conchophilist, is the founder of the British Snail-Watching Society. Last week he, and the 70 members of his organization, celebrated their first anniversary by an all-night watch of snails (they roam chiefly at night) on the darkened byways of suburban London. . Like Henry V at Agincourt, the watchers could cry: "We few, we happy few"-for not only is conchophily a rare passion, but membership in the British Snail-Watching Society is rigorously limited to those devotees who take snails with high seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient...
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