Dear Kobie,

wellcome from Austria and please send me you private e-mail.
My e-mail is [log in to unmask]
Helmut from Innsbruck

Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
url: www.netwing.at/nisters/

or

Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37

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Dear Kobie,

Welcome aboard. As a fellow micro-enthusiast I can sympathize with attempts
at identification. Persistence sometimes pays - but don't feel bad if you
can only id to Family or genus.

COuld you please privately e-mail me with details on obtaining your data
base program? Thanks.

Tom Rice
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-----Original Message-----
From: R J Du Preez <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:27 PM
Subject: Another new subscriber!


>Hello everyone,
>
>I am also a new subscriber. I have follow the messages for 2 days now
before
>'introducing' myself.
>My name is Kobie du Preez and I'm from South Africa. I live in Centurion
>near Pretoria and Johannesburg; far away from the nearest ocean. I have
been
>collecting since 1995. My main interest is any micro-shell that I can find,
>and I'm also interested in land and water shells. I haven't decided yet in
a
>family for specialization, so on the moment I collect everything.
>
>One of my other hobbies is programming, and I have written a program to
>maintain a database for shell collecting, printing labels and many more
>functions.
>
>Any micro-shellers out there?????  I have my own stereo microscope with a
>camera adapter, and hopefully you will be able to see some of my work in
>about 2 weeks time on my website that I'm busy setting up!
>
>I'm married, have two girls, aged 11 and 8. My pets include live land
>snails, a dog and a cat. We are also 4x4-nature-lovers and go to very
>interesting places.
>
>Happy shelling for those at the ocean, rivers or anywhere else..
>
>Kobie du Preez
>