Alas, I also live within blocks of a museum with about a million shells
in thier collection...never on display, and with a very tightly-closed
policy on letting visitors view the collection. I've never seen it.
Has anyone out there ever seen the Vancouver Museum's shells? How can
it be arranged, or should I just keep dreaming...

Peter Egerton
Vancouver, BC, Canada



At 12:27 PM 7/22/00 +1000, you wrote:
>The Australian Museum has a very large research collection and a malacology
>department of international standing. Yet, I am yet to see any (read ANY)
>shells in the exhibition area. The display people in the museum are into
>touchy-feely, minimalist exhibitions. What a pity
>
>Patty
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Peter Egerton, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca,
lifetime student of zoology and computers.
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