The mind is a wonderful organ.  Remembering is one of the human traits 
and this is a wonderful story.
Martin

On 2/16/2018 8:46 AM, Schweikert, Brian CTR NAVSUP WSS wrote:
> Just really a shout out to the memory of an amazing teacher and grandfather.
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> Came across this interesting piece of family history (I tried to attach but system won't let me send).
> Anyway it was a glorified receipt from the Academy for Specimens of appolon microstoma gathered from Hinga Japan on May 1956.
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> My Grandfather, Joseph Pentz worked as a volunteer closely with Dr. Pillsbury and R. Tucker Abbott (in his early years) at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
> I don’t think anyone around these days would remember him.
> However, from all the correspondence I have of his I gather he was well known in this circle back in the day (1950's-60's). He had a huge, huge collection that I think he sold off or donated to the Academy.
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> Brian J. Schweikert
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