In a message dated 6/5/01 4:37:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ilja@mac.com
writes:
<< In some countries (e.g., Italy), all
vertebrate fossil remains are treated like antropological remains (and
subsequently disappear into dark museum drawers), in others there is no
legislature at all. >>
The museum drawers may be dark, Ilja, but the fossils do NOT
disappear. Although specimens like a certain Archaeopteryx do become
AWOL
from private collections, treasures like the Berlin specimen that
Heilmann so
brilliantly delineated remain safe in their comfortable and safe, albeit
dark, museum homes where they should be. DV