[Rockhounds] The Vaux collection at the Academy of Science inPhily

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A comment on one item that Andrew mentioned,
 
In a message dated 7/3/2007 1:33:36 PM Mountain Daylight Time,  
turnea55 at hotmail.com writes:

--The  Harvard museum is so well known in most part because of it's 
tremendous  mineral collection

>From a colleague who visited the Harvard museum this spring, I'm told that  
they've removed all the specimens in their "New England Room" to make room for  
office space plus a climate change exhibit.
 


--The LA County Museum of Nat. History (of which I am a member) has  a 
fantastic collection and is the highlight of the museum.  The hall  of 
minerals is always busy, but the animal diorama areas are typically  fairly 
empty.  The gem and mineral council at the museum is probably  the most well 
known group of its kind in the country.

Andrew  Turner
Victorville, CA


I visited the LA Museum last year, and I do agree that its mineral and  gem 
displays are first class.  And another excellent mineral museum  these days is 
the Colorado School of Mines geology museum, in Golden.
 
Pete Modreski



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