Laelaps (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
A cast of the skull of Yangchuanosaurus . Photographed May 18, 2008 at the Delaware Museum of Natural History. Read the comments on this post...
Laelaps (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
A cast of Tuojiangosaurus on display at the Delaware Museum of Natural History. Photographed May 18, 2008. Read the comments on this post...
Laelaps (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
A reconstruction of Archaeopteryx . Photographed May 18, 2008 at the Delaware Museum of Natural History. Read the comments on this post...
Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Bank of America has changed how its "Museums on Us" program operates this year. Last year the bank paid for museum entries around America for the whole month of May. This year they have added more museums to the list, but it is now year round, with the first weekend of every month being free to holders of a Bank of America check, ATM or credit card. Here's a list of the participating museums around...
SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Back in March we had the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists meeting at the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, Delaware. During the lunch break and for about an hour after the meeting I was able to work in the mollusk collection. While looking at a drawer full of specimens of the land snail family Megalobulimidae, I noticed a glass vial with a peculiar object in it. The museum label identified...
SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
The 10th meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists was yesterday at the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) in Wilmington, Delaware. With about 40 attendees, 13 talks and 2 posters, this was probably the largest MAM meeting so far. And as usual, it was a lot of fun. Here are the speakers, in the order they spoke, and not-more-than-two sentence summaries of their talks. Marla Coppolino (Southern...
SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The 10th almost-annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists will take place on Saturday 15 March 2008 at the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, Delaware. MID-ATLANTIC MALACOLOGISTS (MAM) Tenth almost-annual meeting Saturday 15 March 2008 10:00 am Delaware Museum of Natural History 4840 Kennett Pike, Box 3937, Wilmington, DE 19807, U.S.A. Host: Dr. Liz Shea, Curator of Mollusks The...
SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 01/27/2008
Dr. Liz Shea, Curator of Mollusks at the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) in Wilmington, Delaware, announced by e-mail that the 10th almost-annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists (MAM) will take place on Saturday 15 March 2008 at the DMNH. From her e-mail: MID-ATLANTIC MALACOLOGISTS (MAM) Tenth almost-annual meeting Saturday 15 March 2008 10:00 am Delaware Museum of Natural History...
SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
The American Malacological Society will hold its 74th annual meeting in Carbondale, Illinois from 29 June to 3 July 2008. From the web site: The special sessions and symposia will include: --- a land snail conservation symposium and workshop in honor of the late Leslie Hubricht , organized by Kathryn Perez (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill/Duke University), Jay Cordeiro (NatureServe), Jochen...
SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 08/18/2007
I knew Melbourne "Mel" R. Carriker (1915-2007) from the MAM meetings at the Delaware Museum of Natural History . The 2006 meeting was the last one he attended. After my presentation, which was about the extra space in the shells of land snails, several people had comments and questions. During the break, Dr. Carriker came over to me and we had a brief discussion about my presentation and he suggested...
Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2007
I usually delete any emails that have "Bank of America" in the subject as they're usually just scammers phishing for my details (and I don't have a Bank of America account anyway!). But I opened one today (as it seemed legitimate) and found an interesting story. Bank of America will be paying for your entry into 86 different museums throughout America during the month of May. The only catch is that...
SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 04/01/2007
The 9th meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists was today at the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) in Wilmington, Delaware. Out of those 9 meetings I have been to (I think 7), this one was probably the longest and the best in terms of the variety and the quality of the talks. We started at 10 in the morning, took a lunch break for 1.5 hours and then had more talks until a little after 4 pm...
SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 03/27/2007
MID-ATLANTIC MALACOLOGISTS (MAM) Saturday 31 March 2007 10:00 am Delaware Museum of Natural History 4840 Kennett Pike, Box 3937, Wilmington, DE 19807, U.S.A. Host: Dr. Liz Shea, Curator of Mollusks The 9th almost-annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists will be this Saturday 31 March 2007 at the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) in Wilmington, Delaware. This one-day gathering is designed...
