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Official Alabama Shell Johnstone's Junonia
The Johnstone's Junonia or, Scaphella junonia johnstoneae, is a seashell found only in Alabama. The shell is the home of a deep water marine mollusk. A Harvard scientist, Dr. William J. Clench, named the shell in honor of Kathleen Yerger Johnstone, an amateur conchologist from Mobile, Alabama, who made seashells popular through speeches and books. The Scaphella junonia johnstoneae was made the state shell in 1990. |
For more information see:
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~dwills/alaview.html
Source:
Act 90-567, Acts of Alabama, April 19, 1990
Updated: March 29, 2007
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/kids_emblems/st_shell.html
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Alabama Department of Archives & History 624 Washington Avenue Montgomery, Alabama 36130-0100 Phone: (334) 242-4435 E-Mail:debbie.pendleton@archives.alabama.gov |
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