Dear Helmut;-
    Stay on the list. We have gotten used to you. Besides, your mother has a lot to look forward to: my
mother is 99. She doesn't do shells, but she is a great booster of Kentucky sippin' whiskey.
        Art

Helmut Nisters wrote:

> Dear Conchlers,
>
> I always tried to explain to and I want this confirm again. The shell collection, where I asked for
> shells in donation, is not not not our private one, but from the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum.
> So I can't enrich me myself with shells, as they are not mines. They belong to the museum and
> my mother and I are volunteers since 1972 and we treat the collection  as our private one.
> The shell grit I am asking for my mother as the sorting out of shells and foras keeps her quite
> active, as she is really aged nearly 89 years, born 18. 8. 1911.
> When I traded some exotic and oversea species as well as landshells I took the shells out of
> our private collection, not to make the museums collection smaller and poorer.
> As there were now many nice answers and I hope some will follow, I will stay then on the list in
> future too. Maybe that there are coming again annoying askings but I'll try to use Conch-L more
> for informations. And humour should be nevertheless too, otherwise  I think it's boring. And for
> me it should be this a list for contacting and to change ideas in any way, not only concerning
> molluscs only scientific.
> again with best greetings
> Helmut
>
> p.s.: Maybe we Tryroleans as the folk of the mountains and Alps (or hinterland) we are very, and maybe
> to open and contact friendly.
>
> Helmut "Helix" Nisters
> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
> phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
>            (please visit it and sign guestbook)
>
> office:
> Natural History Department of the
> Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
> Feldstrasse 11 a
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37