You may want to try the Vancouver Museum - it did once have a natural
history department that contained (and still does I think) fossil material
and other geological collections. It also have over 1 million shells!
Anyway , I dont have an e-mail but you can call them at 604-736-4431.  They
have an automated phone system so you may want to ask for Joan Seidl
(history curator).  They no longer have a natural historian on staff.
Hope this helps.

Carol Mayer
UBC Museum ofAnthropology.

At 10:41 PM 9/25/96 GMT, you wrote:
>Dear folks:
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>        I do not know if this is the appropriate place to post my
>query, but I'll give it a try anyway.
>        In a 1977 biography of a certain paleontologist, mention
>is made that he donated fossil material to the Victoria Memorial
>Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia. I thus assume that this is
>some kind of natural history museum. I have consulted the CHIN
>webpages and have not found anything on this museum. I would like
>to know if it still exists and, if so, under what name is it now
>known? Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated.
>
>Michel Chartier
>Departement d'anthropologie
>Universite de Montreal
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