Dear All, Here is an intriguing puzzle. Has anyone ever heard of this person?
Any leads will be appreciated.
Carole Marshall
In a message dated 11/03/1999 3:32:53 PM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:
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I am trying to get in contact with a former employee (an add-measurer in
the 1960s) of the Panama Canal Company, Mr. L.T. "Ted" Williams.
I am a research professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Science, Univ of Miami, and curator of its marine invertebrate
museum. Among our collections are valuable collections of corals from the
Galapagos Islands, Belize and the Caribbean coast of Panama made in the
1960s and early 1970s by Ted Williams. With recent changing environmental
conditions in the area of the Galapagos, the William's collection (one of
the earliest known from the area) is of enormous scientific value for
comparisons with the corals present today. However to be of maximum use,
we need to know the year and exact location in the Galapagos where the
specimens were collected, and this information is unfortunately missing.
I understand that Mr. Williams and his wife Virginia, who taught at Curundu
Elementary in the canal zone, left Panama around 1969-1970, and moved to
somewhere in New England to be near their two daughters. I believe they
also had a yacht and residence in the Bahamas in the 1970s.
We (Dr Peter Glynn,coral specialist, and I) would like to contact him in
hopes of securing the needed data for his collections. We would deeply
appreciate any help you could give us in this search.
Sincerely,
Nancy Voss
Research Professor, and Curator
of the Marine Invertebrate Museum
MBF/RSMAS/Univ of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Cswy
Miami, FL 33149 USA
tel: 305/361-4198
fax: 305/361-4600
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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P.S. In all your recent postings about numbering systems, I would like to
restate what Charlie Sturm and others have said before. PLEASE let your next
of kin know about your system and do tell them not to throw any journals
away. Collection after collection is lost because of missing journals or
obscure numbering systems. All these corals are marked with some type of Mr.
Williams' dots, dashes etc. The trouble is, no journal to translate. If you
know of any other list this can be posted to, it would be appreciated.
P.S. While you are all looking for journals etc. If anyone has the vaguest
idea where Axel Olsson's journals are, we need those too. Another valuable
collection which has some obscure references.
Thanks,
Carole
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