>From:    "Mike J. Schenk" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: San Diego/Santa Barbara Museums
>
>I will be in the southern California region in June and wanted to see if
>anyone on the Conch-l list could recommend a museum in San Diego or Santa
>Barbara that has a marine mollusc collection on display. Any information
>on the museums would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (CAS)
Invertebrate Zoology and Geology
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
Curator: Dr. Terry Gosliner
Collection Manager: Dr. Robert J. Van Syoc
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (415) 750-7082
WEB: gopher://cas.calacademy.org:70/11/depts
 
Our type collection is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.calacademy.org/.
 
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (LACM)
Section of Invertebrate Zoology
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Curator: Dr. James McLean
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (213) 744-3377
Collection Manager: Linsey T. Groves
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Phone: (213) 763-3376 or 744-3485
Fax: (213) 746-2999
 
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (SBMNH)
2559 Puesta del Sol Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93105-2998
Curator: Dr. F.G. Hochberg
Howard-Berry Chair of Malacology: Dr. Henry W. Chaney
Collection Manager: Paul Scott
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (805) 682-4711, ext. #318 (F.G. Hochberg), 319 (P. Scott), 334 (H.
Chaney).
Fax: (805) 569-3170
 http://www.rain.org/~inverts/.
 
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY (SIO)
La Jolla, CA 92093-0208
Benthic Invertebrates Collection
Curator William Newman
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Plankton Collection
Curator: Mark Ohman
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
 
SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
P. O. Box 1390
San Diego, CA 92112
Director, Collections Care and Conservation: Sally Shelton
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (619) 232-3821
Fax: (619) 232-0248
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/mollusk_links/museumlist.html
 
Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
Champaign, IL
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/mollusk.html
 
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