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> Helmut Nisters
> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Tyrol / Austria / Europe
> phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> homepage: http.//www.netwing.at/nisters/
>
> or
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> Natural History Department of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
> Innsbruck
> Feldstrasse 11a
> A-6020 Innsbruck
> phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 (-40)
>
> Dear Lenny Brown,                                       Innsbruck, 4. 4. 1998
>
> Thank you best for your kindky e-mail, whicht arrived today morning.
> The species of the family Epitoniidae are really one of my favorte shells,
> although
> in the museum collections are only a few European species (the most common
> ones and 2 rarer ones) only in a few specimens and as "exotic" species
> Epitonium scalare. I like the Epitonium for their quite small size, nice shape
> and the
> ribbing. So I would be pleased to get some Epitoniidae of your duplicates in
> donation for the shell collection of the museum. For the moment I can't do
> anything for you, verry sorry. But I hope you can give me some nice species
> to the museum. I would be interested in all species, you can offer to me.
> For me the Epitoniidae is one of the nicest and most beautiful families and
> always a collector's item. A beautiful shell must not be large; my mother
> and I are avide for the smaller species too.
> Thank you best for your offer and I will remain with my best regards to you,
> also by my mother.
>
> yours Helmut