SHELL COLLECTING IN CUBA NOVEMBER 1930

摘要

This most readable narrative of Paul L. McGinty would still be in a museum archive were it not for the persistence of Richard (Dick) E. Petit who, for some years before his death in December 2013, had become very interested in the life and work of the McGinty family. With the help of Roger W. Portell, Director of the Invertebrate Paleontology Collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Dick obtained photocopies of diaries and narratives of the McGinty's adventures in the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Tortugas, and even Liguus collecting in southern Florida. The narrative that interested him the most, however, was Paul's "Shell collecting in Cuba," which Paul wrote following their trip in November, 1930. Since Dick only had a photocopy of the manuscript, he had it re-typed in an electronic format so that it could be edited. And here we are.