At 06:42 AM 7/14/98 PDT, you wrote:
>Dear Tom,
>
>congratulations for your new shelling family member, as  George
>has birthday at the same day as I, on the 13. july. Which kind of
>shells is father collecting ? Land-, freshwater- or marine shells ?
>The son should do the same: As there is a preference to land-shells,
>I am able to send a small European start collection.
>Please contact me.
>
 
 
Thank you for the congratulations! Dad collects everything, but in
land-locked Ohio I mostly see land snails and freshwater mussels. I
specialize in Helicidae and related families, Clausiliidae, Helicinidae, and
Annulariidae. This summer I have a contract to survey the landsnails in a
10,000 acre preserve - should produce many landsnails. Perhaps we could
exchange some specimens?
 
Thanks again, and Happy Birthday!
 
G. Thomas Watters
Ohio Biological Survey &
Aquatic Ecology Laboratory
Ohio State University
1315 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH  USA
v: 614-292-6170
f: 614-292-0181