National Museum of Natural History
Bledsoe Seashell Collection
August 1, 1988 – June 30, 1989
On view are 13 shells from the collection of the late William D. Bledsoe of Brentwood, California, who collected 9,000 sea shells over a 30-year period. The shells displayed include a large Entemnotochus rumphii, found in the Strait of Formosa; a small Carouta crassicosta from the Philippines; and a yellow Chlamys australis from the South Pacific.
