Dear Carole,

Just check with a museum in the area (such as the Florida Museum of Natural History or The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum) to ensure that they would be interested in the material. In case they accept, send them the material asking for collection numbers, which you can use to trace the stuff back for study or whenever you want to make reference to it.  BMSM is always interested in FL material.

Kind regards,

José
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Subject: [CONCH-L] Voucher Specimens

    Conch-L is unusually quiet lately. Everyone must be busy or on another website. Anyway, I have a question. If I collect in an area and feel that the specimens should be made available to future workers, how would that be done. What information needs to be included and what museums should be contacted and anything else anyone can tell me about the process.
 Also, if I should find other organisms other than mollusks, what could be done with them to preserve them.
 Thanks,
       Carole Marshall

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