On 16-Sep.-19 2:51 a.m., Ron G. Noseworthy wrote:

> Are there others on the list who remember their first shell/s? I'll bet that some of those stories would be quite interesting.

* my first shells were a spectacular boxful of marine beauties, mostly 
snails, that my aunt and uncle brought back from a vacation in Florida 
around 1957. I got interested in the internal coiling, and my mother 
allowed us to attach a disk with sandpaper to the motor of an old vacuum 
cleaner and produce huge volumes of calcareous dust by grinding many 
shells away to cross sections. I used these in a grade 4 science 
project, with an essay on logarithmic isomorphic growth, which only 
netted me a B grade - suggesting to me that the teacher hadn't 
understood what I had been getting at, one of my first insights into the 
idea that adults weren't omniscient.

These are long lost, and the oldest collection I have in my database is 
in the Canadian Museum of Nature 2004 backlog / Lampsilis radiata 
siliquoidea / Canada: Ontario: Kenora District: Attawapiskat  / July 
1971 / Frederick W. Schueler - no field number.

fred.
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