Welcome and that will keep you busy!

Martin

Gary Fredrickson wrote:
> Hi, The email I received said it is customary for newbies to give some
> information about themselves. In going back at random through the archives
> I can find precious few who have done so but what the heck. I can be
> boring as well as anyone. Started collecting when someone at work became
> my very best friend and it was what she collected. For some time I tried
> to limit it to olives but of course noone ever really specializes
> completely. Anyway Phyllis Grimm and I attended a few COA conventions
> starting from the St louis one until the early nineties. Then she started
> collecting fossils. Of course in the meantime I had kind of switched to
> precolumbian pottery (thank you Royce Hubert lol). So then I added fossils
> to the mix. I own a one bedroom house. Starting to get the picture? Anyway
> shortly before she passed away Phyllis gave me most of her shell
> collection. And unfortunately every time I look at a shell list I think
> Phyl liked those especially. Of course then it finally dawned on me that
> Phyl liked every family especially. Yikes. So I am now limiting myself to
> margins olives cancellaria latiaxis, murex, volutes epitoneums, cones.
> Well, again you get the picture. Clearly I'm a collector but not a student.
> I can tell that when I check one of the many shell books I own (did I
> mention I seem to collect shell books too?) I really have no grasp of the
> nomenclature. And thus I tend to gravitate towards people who actually do
> know something which explains my presence here. So teach on, I'll be the
> sponge amongst all these gastropod people.
> Gary
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