Good write-up Bob, When I began collecting Tuckers books helped in
understanding what's what and why we use Latin names . I found he was to be
at the Sanibel Show and we made plans to attend . It wasn't until we arrived
that we found about his passing on , what a devastating loss to malacology
but at least his written works will live on . BTW, we did attend his public
memorial on sanibel , many nice words and great stories.
I wonder  what the Conch-l would have been like with Dr. Abbott in
attendance even though I believe he's channeling through Art.... Weaselly
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From: Robert & Betty Lipe <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: Abbott's methods


>Betty and I new Tucker for quite a few years.  He was always easy to
>talk to and never talked down to anyone.  I put a display in the St.
>Petersburg Shell Show in 1969 and won the Smithsonian Award which it was
>called at that time.  Now it's named the National Museum of Natural
>History award.  Anyway Dr. R. Tucker Abbott was one of the Judges of
>that show, and he did like pictures of living Mollusk.  He was a fun
>loving guy.  Many of my pictures were used in his books and he helped me
>get them in others.  He passed away the same day that our grandson was
>born, Nov. 3, 1995.  I hope our grandson gets some of his smarts.
>
>Bob Lipe
>
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