Urgent.
Sally Shelton
Director, Collections Care and Conservation
San Diego Natural History Museum
 
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 10:05:09 -0500
From: Mary Savina <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list ARCH-L <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Help disseminating news of a theft
 
I apologize in advance for using the archaeology mailing list for something not
strictly archaeological.  But I know that some museum people subscribe to this
list and I hope that some of you can quickly help me find the appropriate
electronic mailing lists and bulletin boards on which to post a notice of this
theft.  Not only do we want help in possibly tracking down the specimens that
were stolen, but we also want to alert college and university departments, and
other organizations with display collections, of the theft we experienced over
the weekend.
 
Please reply directly to [log in to unmask]  not to the list proper.
 
On Saturday, September 23, 1994, 133 museum quality mineral crystal specimens
and 522 fossils, with a total value of over $50,000, were stolen from the
Geology Department at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.  The mineral
specimens were removed from several large hallway display cases and the fossils
were taken from other display cases and from an adjacent lab. The fossils
included several good quality mammoth and mastodon tusks, teeth and jaw bones
and several hundred marine shell fossils from Miocene deposits in Florida.
  Each of the specimens is identified with a catalog number in black pen
lettering on white paint on the back or bottom.
  A complete inventory of the stolen specimens is available from the Geology
Department (507)-663-4407 or (507)-663-4401.
 
Thanks for your help in telling me how to disseminate this information.
 
Mary Savina
Chair, Geology Department