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Transcript: New Mollusk Museum Only One of Its Kind in the Country
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- May 25, 1994
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ALEX CHADWICK, Host: Something to ponder here. There are 6,000 museums
in this country and, until now, not a single one of them has been
solely devoted to the study of the mollusk. Oh, sure, you can find
shells at the Smithsonian, and conchs and cohauges [sp] at varia aquaria,
and clam fossils at This-or-That Museum of Natural History, but,
for a whole museum devoted to malacology, there is no place else to
go but the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum [sp] in Sanibel, Florida.
But, don't go yet; it won't be open for a few more months.
[interviewing] The founding director, R. Tucker Abbott [sp], is hard
at work already, however. Hello, Dr. Abbott?
R. ...