Hi Christa and conch,
 
Dear Christa your history is very !surprising!.
 
Please, ! now don't use H2SO4!
 
Are you agree ?.
 
 
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Christa Schmidt wrote:
 
> Following this thread, I remember a little story which Georges Markens wrote
> in an article in "Informationen" the magazine of the German shell club. Must
> have been somewhere in the mid eighties. I was just starting to collect
> shells and remember beeing very impressed (and of course amused) by it. Here
> is the story in short, as I recall it:
> During a stay in a North African country, a friend of George collected some
> small land snails.  The snails (still alive and closed by an operculum) were
> put in alcohol and stayed there for three weeks. After that they were thrown
> into a bleach solution and forgotten. Again three weeks went by untill the
> owner of the little snails remembered them, took them out of the bleach and
> put them into a box to let them dry. After some days he finally wanted to
> take a close look to them for identification and found the box empty. The
> snails were all gone! He then discovered them - sitting on the wall of his
> livingroom!
>
> So my conclusion is: when put in alcohol, snails may die "with a smile on
> their faces", as Carol said - unless they come from an islamic country!  :)
>
> Christa
>
 
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