Shell collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Shell
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1300354
Summary
A large collection of small shells, mostly snail shells, recorded as coming from Lake Kivu. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958).