Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
homepage: http://www.netwing.at/nisters/
 
or
 
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11 a
A-6020 Innsbruck
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 (-40)
 
 
Dear Dan,
 
Good luck for your intention to work on a school collection of
this college. Fist best greetings from Innsbruck (Austria).
My mother, Dr. Irmgard Nisters, 86 years, former lawyeer,
and I, 44 years, former chemist, we both are responsable as
honorary collaborators for the quite nice, by us well sistemated,
but not large shell collection of the natural history department
of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. We have a
private collection of inland-shells from Austria, Northern Italy
and some other parts of Europe and Mediterranean shells too.
Further we are working on school-collections for higher schools
and are donating some smaller collections to schools to make
malacology better known. So we revised a collection in South-
Tyrol (Northern Italy) at the Vinzentinum Brixen, whoch contained
also small collection of California collected by Henry Hemphill
and donated by an pupil of the school, who became doctor
in California.
If your students are interested in some European material
(land-shells, freshwater-shells from Austria, Northern Italay etc.
and some Mediterranean species) to compare them with
species I am willing to send you some species. Maybe you
can send me some shells (land- or marine-shells) from your
zone as I want to build up the museum's collection,
I hope to hear from you as soon as possible.
Again best wishes from Innsbruck, also by my mother
 
yours Helmut
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> Hi!
>         My name is Dan Yoshimoto and I just subscribed to Conch-L a few
> days ago, after getting on the Internet.  I am a rather new resident of
> Eureka, California and shelling here in Northern California is rather bleak
> after living for 57 years in Southern California.  There is no shell club
> here, although I'm trying to find a few shellers in the area.  So far I've
> amassed a group of 4.
> Presently I am trying to organize the shell collection at College of the
> Redwoods, which was donated by Robert Talmadge in the 1970's.  It has not
> been used for years and is in rather poor shape.  It will be useful to the
> students in a few years.
>         Being retired I find that I have time for many interesting
> activities related to shells.  I give talks, along with my wife Hiromi, in
> the local elementary, Jr. Hi and high schools.  We belong to a volunteer
> group called Nature Discovery Volunteers which has been in existance for
> about 20 years. We are presently members of C.O.A., Pacific Shell Club,
> Conchological Club of Southern California and the Oregon shell Club.  As
> you can see we have become quite involved in our 6 years of being new
> collectors.  I guess that's what happens when the "bug bites".
>         In the last 5-6 days of being on Conch-L I cannot get away from the
> Internet.  It really does bite.  Wishing all my new Conch-Lers good luck
> with their connections, especially Melissa Hamilton who is also new.
>         Dan Yoshimoto
>