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> Helmut Nisters
> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> Tel. and Fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> homepage: http://www.netwing.at/nisters/
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> or
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> natural department of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
> Feldstrasse 11 a
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> Tel.: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
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> Dear shell friends around the world,     Innsbruck, 19. 3. 1998
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> My mother, Dr. Irmgard Nisters, 86 years, formerly lawyer, and I, 44 years, we
> both are working since 1972 as honorary collaborators of
> the zoologica department of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
> in Innsbruck and are responsible for the quite nice, but not very large,
> and by well sistemated collection of shells. As I want to build up the
> collection, specially since 1985 after a high-water-disaster, I am looking to
> recieve as well as land- or freshwater-shells and marine shells (common and
> rarer ones) in donation for the museum. I am
> interested in all kinds of shells, important that they are with full data.
> We have a private collection of land- and freswater-shells of Europe
> and of mediterranean shells too and I use them also for donations
> for school collections to make malacology better known.
> If you are able or willing to send me some shells in donation for the
> museum, we will put your name in the small year-book of the Tiroler
> Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck.
> Thank you best in advance
> yours Helmut Nisters
>
> p.s:: As my mother and I are interested in microshells too, I would be
>         very thankful if anybody can send me detritus to sort them out.