Hi Fabio and all,

I'd suspect that the great Mollusc collections of the world, e.g. the
museums mentioned at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchology

would certainly qualify to have a 'complete Dance' in their collections.
However with species like Pholadomya candida, where far more (sub)fossil
than live specimens are known from, it depends if you would count only
recent, live taken specimens or not, to determine if a collection is to
considered to have the 'complete Dance'.

Sincerely, Erick


On 06/27/2012 01:00 AM, Fabio Moretzsohn wrote:
> Dear Harry
>
> Thank you for organizing this interesting and well-attended symposium at
> the COA convention. I was lucky to attend it and enjoyed every
> presentation. Congratulations to you and all presenters for a job well done!
>
> It was also great that Peter Dance was able to participate, albeit via
> Skype, which worked better than I expected.
>
> You mentioned during the symposium that to date only a couple of people
> have managed to gather all 50 species in Dance's book, Rare Shells. A
> third person announced during the convention that he had just completed
> his collection of the 50 rare shells. Despite many of the "nifty fifty"
> species selected by Dance over 40 years ago are no longer rare, the fact
> that so few people have been able to gather them is a testament to the
> rarity or difficulty of at least some among them (also reflected in the
> results of the votes).
>
> I wonder if any museum collection has a complete collection of the
> original 50 rare species in Dance's book.
>
> Hopefully Peter Dance or someone will be stimulated by your exercise to
> write a new book with a new selection of 50 (or 100?) currently rare
> species.
>
> Cheers,
> Fabio M.

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