I am forwarding this to the list in the hopes that someone who is less
land-locked than I am will be able to help this student out.  They are not
subscribed to conch-l so you will need to reply to them directly.
Thanks
Amy

>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 08:13:45 -0400
>From: Susan Harner <[log in to unmask]>
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>Organization: Home
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Whelk eggcases
>
>Dear Ms. Edwards,
>   I am an 8th grader who has been doing a science fair project for two
>years on Whelks.  I have been trying to find the percentages of the
>Channeled, to Knobbed Whelks and whether they are Right or Left Handed.
>Both years my project has gone to the Junior Division in the Regional
>(Tidewater) Science Fair.  Most of the sampling I have done has been in
>the Chesapeake Bay area and northern North Carolina.  As the final year
>of the project, I would like to expand my interests south.  This way I
>could look at the Lightning Whelks.  I would like to collect eggcases
>that have washed up on the beaches of South Carolina and Georgia.
>However, it would cost a lot of money to take a trip down there to
>collect these.  What I would like to know, is where I could find someone
>that would walk the barrier islands for me and collect anywhere from 7
>to 15 eggcases.  I would be willing to pay for the eggcases and the
>shipping charge to send them up to Virginia.  Thank you for taking your
>time to look at this and please respond soon.
>
>                                                       Patrick Harner
>                                                       Rescue, Virginia
>

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