Dear Raye,

I just returned from the WSM meeting in Fullerton and heard about your
retirment there.

I know this must be a very busy time for you, but would you have time to
check on one shell for me?  I am writing a paper on the bivalves in the
Pitar subgenus Hysteroconcha, and need information on the number of lots and
the most northern and most southern occurance for Pitar (H.) brevispinosus
(Sowerby, 1851).  The only specimen I can find in museums on the west coast
is one from Ecuador that I collected at SBMNH.

Best wishes for your retirement.

Carol Skoglund
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----- Original Message -----
From: Raye Germon <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 9:22 AM
Subject: General Information


> I will be retiring from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology,
> National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution at the
> close of business June 30, 1999.  I will sign off from Conch-L on
> that day, but will return to the listserv sometime in September after
> I get settled in my new home in Madison, Georgia.
>
> Beginning July 1, 1999 for information concerning the mollusk
> collections, loan inquiries or requests, permission to study the
> collections etc., contact Cheryl Bright at [log in to unmask]
> or Jerry Harasewych at [log in to unmask]