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Curator’s Choice: Stillman Berry’s First Shell
By Santa Barbara Museum of of Natural History   |   October 7, 2025

This specimen of a marlinspike shell (Terebra maculata) has sentimental and historic significance, which makes it a favorite of Associate Curator Vanessa Delnavaz, MA. The shell comes with a label handwritten by S. Stillman Berry: “This poor battered shell is kept for reasons of sentiment. It has been in our family at least 110 years… […]