Dear JW;-
    Was collecting shells considered to be evidence of insanity? Inquiring minds want to know.
     Art


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---- John Wolff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Du Pont provided the basis for the Delaware Museum of Natural History
> which is doing very well after a $5 million renovation last year
> The mollusk collection holds some 220,000 lots.  The Mid-Atlantic
> Malacologists meeting (MAM) was held there on March 4
> http://www.delmnh.org/?page=230
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> (du Pont was convicted of murder and declared insane some ten years ago)
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> John Wolff
> Lancaster, PA
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>
> At 03:52 AM 3/22/2006, you wrote:
>
> >Hi All!
> >
> >Does anybody know, how the collection of John du Pont is?
> >Best regards Karl

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