Re: Kirkaldy and SVP Ethics Statement

["Jeffrey Martz" <jeffmartz@earthlink.net>]

Ken Kinman wrote....
> Such
> documentation should be sufficient for the designation of additional type
> specimens (lectotypes or whatever) in the small percentages of cases where
> the private collectors are not cooperative in the future.

    The "small percentage of cases"?  I'd like to see a few statistics to
back up THAT claim...

and Dinogeorge wrote...
>Oh, give me a break! I personally certainly wouldn't do something as absurd
>as this, but think about what has been happening with the Protoavis
material.
>Shall we drum Sankar Chatterjee out of the SVP?

    George, if you want to look at the Protoavis material come down here and
see it yourself.  Visiting collections is a good practice to get into.

LNJ
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