This is just a comment. You are right about picking the right museum. If you want to donate a shell collection, you must be sure the museum is interested in shells. The Delaware Museum is. The Cincinnati Museum was----but isn't anymore. Data is more important than substance. Stuff collected on vacations in Florida without data is most valuable as driveway material. Data authenticates. Data hooks up with other data. Data lives. (and the giant octopus in my basement has just currled up for a long winters nap) Art