Although not associated with the mollusk collection at FLMNH any longer I
was the one that started the leg: stuff back in 1983.  At that time I was
told leg: meant legacy so we usually entered i.e. Leg: Univ. Alabama, Ex:
T. H. Aldrich Collection.  Usually neither members of the Alabama museum
nor Aldrich collected the specimens.  These notes were entered in the
Remarks field.  If the collector was known (not usually) his/her name was
entered in the collector field.
 
Kurt
 
At 12:43 AM 4/15/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-04-13 15:57:13 EDT, Helmut Nisters wrote:
>
><< leg does really mean legit and should mean collected.
> Maybe that the donor of the shells is the collector too.
> leg, Univ. Alabama means perhaps that members of the
> Univ. Alabama had collected some shells, without knowing
> exactly who. I thnink it' the same meaning if you know one
> person and the others not, for example:
> leg. Nisters et al.
> So I think leg. Univ. Alabama will substiute all the collectors
> of a group. >>
>
>
>TO CLARIFY:  In addition to "Leg.:  Univ. Alabama" , FMNH labels also bear
>"Coll.: [John Doe]".  I hope this clears up any points of confusion anyone
>else may have had on the subject as well.
>
>Doug Shelton
>Alabama Malacological Research Center
>2370-G Hillcrest Road #236
>Mobile, AL 36695  USA
>