Dear All, Here is an intriguing puzzle. Has anyone ever heard of this person?
Any leads will be appreciated.
           Carole Marshall


In a message dated 11/03/1999 3:32:53 PM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

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 I am trying to get in contact with a former employee (an add-measurer in
 the 1960s) of the Panama Canal Company, Mr. L.T. "Ted" Williams.

 I am a research professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and
 Atmospheric Science, Univ of Miami, and curator of its marine invertebrate
 museum.  Among our collections are  valuable collections of corals from the
 Galapagos Islands, Belize and the Caribbean coast of Panama made in the
 1960s and early 1970s by Ted Williams.  With recent changing environmental
 conditions in the area of the Galapagos, the William's collection (one of
 the earliest known from the area) is of enormous scientific value for
 comparisons with the corals present today.  However to be of maximum use,
 we need to know the year and exact location in the Galapagos where the
 specimens were collected,  and this information is unfortunately missing.

 I understand that Mr. Williams and his wife Virginia, who taught at Curundu
 Elementary in the canal zone, left Panama around 1969-1970, and moved to
 somewhere in New England to be near their two daughters.  I believe they
 also had a yacht and residence in the Bahamas in the 1970s.

 We (Dr Peter Glynn,coral specialist, and I) would like to contact him in
 hopes of securing the needed data for his collections.  We would deeply
 appreciate any help you could give us in this search.

 Sincerely,

 Nancy Voss

 Research Professor, and Curator
 of the Marine Invertebrate Museum
 MBF/RSMAS/Univ of Miami
 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy
 Miami, FL 33149 USA
 tel: 305/361-4198
 fax: 305/361-4600
 e-mail: [log in to unmask]

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 P.S. In all your recent postings about numbering systems, I would like to
restate what Charlie Sturm and others have said before. PLEASE let your next
of kin know about your system and do tell them not to throw any journals
away. Collection after collection is lost because of missing journals or
obscure numbering systems. All these corals are marked with some type of Mr.
Williams' dots, dashes etc. The trouble is, no journal to translate. If you
know of any other list this can be posted to, it would be appreciated.
  P.S. While you are all looking for journals etc. If anyone has the vaguest
idea where Axel Olsson's journals are, we need those too. Another valuable
collection which has some obscure references.
        Thanks,
             Carole