Dear Ross;
 
I don't know why things are like that. Maybe we're just a little bit
crazy. Personally, I don't collect one of these flashy things, but my
brother is in Polyplacophora, I think it's just for fun.
 
David
Belgium
 
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, ross mayhew wrote:
 
> I have noticed that of all the coumtries i deal with, the collectors
> from the Netherlands and Belgium are the most likely to be
> "scientifically oriented" in their conchological persuits- often
> collecting  interesting but not shiny or "flashy" taxa such as
> Polyplacophora and Buccinidae, as well as bivalves of all varieties,
> Turridae, etc.  Can anyone perhaps tell me why this is so??
>                                                                                         -Ross Mayhew.
>