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Subject: LT Williams search
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Hi Carole,

Below is the info we presently have on Ted Williams and the reason why
we're trying to contact him.  Feel free to use any or all of it, and my
name for contact person.

Many thanks.
Nancy

_______________________

I am trying to get in contact with a former employee (an add-measurer in
the 1960s) of the Panama Canal Company, Mr. L.T. "Ted" Williams.

I am a research professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Science, Univ of Miami, and curator of its marine invertebrate
museum.  Among our collections are  valuable collections of corals from the
Galapagos Islands, Belize and the Caribbean coast of Panama made in the
1960s and early 1970s by Ted Williams.  With recent changing environmental
conditions in the area of the Galapagos, the William's collection (one of
the earliest known from the area) is of enormous scientific value for
comparisons with the corals present today.  However to be of maximum use,
we need to know the year and exact location in the Galapagos where the
specimens were collected,  and this information is unfortunately missing.

I understand that Mr. Williams and his wife Virginia, who taught at Curundu
Elementary in the canal zone, left Panama around 1969-1970, and moved to
somewhere in New England to be near their two daughters.  I believe they
also had a yacht and residence in the Bahamas in the 1970s.

We (Dr Peter Glynn,coral specialist, and I) would like to contact him in
hopes of securing the needed data for his collections.  We would deeply
appreciate any help you could give us in this search.

Sincerely,

Nancy Voss

Research Professor, and Curator
of the Marine Invertebrate Museum
MBF/RSMAS/Univ of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Cswy
Miami, FL 33149 USA
tel: 305/361-4198
fax: 305/361-4600
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