>One way to remedy that is to volunteer for (mostly cash-strapped) museums.
>Our local North Museum, small by museum standards, has an even smaller
>mollusk section.
>It took nearly ten years to get one window shell display. But twice a year,
>they have an open house for new members, including opening the entire
>mollusk collection, and I can express my opinions without censorship. And
>it does open quite a few receptive eyes.
>After all, we only know  what we learn.

Volunteers at the local museum here are treated like crap by
management... just like the staff! High staff turnover too. That's
what they get for taking on someone from India for the Head... (my
wife is Indian, so I know full well what Indian practices are like!).
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
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