Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Altmann
: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies Hello Peter, Welcome to the list. Thanks for your contribution. It is nice to get a curator's perspective. I'm sure most if not all list members are envious of your job and support your work. I do feel you have not answered Martin's central argument that if laws

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Davidson
: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies Also we should never underestimate the contribution made to science by collectors! This is particularly true of meteorites, if no-one collected them, and created the resources needed for hunting them, our museum draws would actually be much emptier I suspect - Yes

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-09 Thread Mark Ford
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies Mark, I would like to answer some of your allegations if I may and perhaps open a debate about where collected material goes. There seems to be a rather broad misconception about museums and their collections. Let me

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Davidson
: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies Hi Peter, Welcome to the List. :) I do not speak for the list or a majority on it, so take my reply with the appropriate grain (or block) of salt. ;) I am an avid collector of meteorites and minerals (primarily meteorites), and I am also a happily married man

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Davidson
: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies Hello Peter, Welcome to the list. Thanks for your contribution. It is nice to get a curator's perspective. I'm sure most if not all list members are envious of your job and support your work. I do feel you have not answered Martin's central argument that if laws

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Altmann
...@meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Peter Davidson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Juli 2009 10:23 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies Mark, I would like to answer some of your allegations if I may and perhaps open a debate about where collected material goes

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-09 Thread Moni Waiblinger
...@meteorite-martin.de To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:02:31 +0200 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies Peter, please allow me, that I dare to disagree, at one point only. (haven't recovered yet). At their deaths, universities and museum were

[meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Davidson
This is my first posting on this list - please be gentle with me. I have only been on the list a matter of a week or so and I seemed to have walked into a veritable storm. I would like to share my views with you as a curator. Please forgive this rather long mail. Taking a posting from

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-08 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Peter, Welcome to the List. :) I do not speak for the list or a majority on it, so take my reply with the appropriate grain (or block) of salt. ;) I am an avid collector of meteorites and minerals (primarily meteorites), and I am also a happily married man. I mention the fact that I am

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-08 Thread James Baxter
-08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies This is my first posting on this list - please be gentle with me. I have only been on the list a matter of a week or so and I seemed to have walked into a veritable storm. I would like to share my views with you as a curator

Re: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies

2009-07-08 Thread Martin Altmann
-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] A Curator Replies This is my first posting on this list - please be gentle with me. I have only been on the list a matter of a week or so and I seemed to have walked into a veritable storm. I would like to share my views with you as a curator