Date:         Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:47:21 -0400
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From:         Kurt Auffenberg <kauffe@FLMNH.UFL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Beal-Maltbie Shell Museum
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Dear all:
 
The Beal-Maltbie Collection is at the Florida Museum of Natural History,
University of Florida, Gainesville.  I personally packed it up and brought
it to Gator Country.  Rollins College divested itself of the collection
because it needed the space for other programs.  None of it is on exhibit
for various reasons.  It is fully computer-cataloged.  Rest assured, it is
being well-cared for in the research collection.  Contact the curator, Dr.
Fred G. Thompson at fgt@flmnh.ufl.edu, if you have any further questions.
 
Kurt
 
At 05:45 PM 4/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi- that's an answer I'd like too. I went to Rollins in the
>last 5 years a-looking for it since I had actually been
>taken to visit it as a teenager ( many years ago).  Nobody
>really knew, except someone said, U. of Central Fl; andother
>said, U. of Fl. Last summer I was in Gainesville & went to the
>museum of Fl natural history and there were a few shells but certainly
>no Beal-Maltbie.
>
>Karen VV
>
>On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Scott E Jordan wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know what happened to the collection of the Beal-Maltbie
Shell Museum of St. Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
>>
>> Scott Jordan
>>
>