leg does really mean legit and should mean collected.
Maybe that the donor of the shells is the collector too.
leg, Univ. Alabama means perhaps that members of the
Univ. Alabama had collected some shells, without knowing
exactly who. I thnink it' the same meaning if you know one
person and the others not, for example:
leg. Nisters et al.
So I think leg. Univ. Alabame will substiute all the collectors
of a group.
 
yours Helmut
 
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> Having recently visited the Florida Museum of Natural History let me add my
> observations to Dr. Rosenberg's comments regarding the use of "Leg." by that
> institution.  I too noticed that their labels (not historical, but recent) use
> "Leg." to indicate donor and not the collector as is standard practice.  For
> example, a number of years ago due to the shortsightedness of Alabma Museum
> personel, the entire malacological collection was transferred to FMNH (Univ.
> Florida).  The labels for that collection all read "Leg.:  Univ. Alabama".
>
> Doug Shelton
> Alabama Malacological Research Center
> 2370-G HIllcrest Road #236
> Mobile, AL 36695   USA
>