Re: paleonet J. Vertebrate Paleo at risk in NJ and PA

[jurdyke@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Dear Roger,

Yesterday I had the experience where all the plates were there, but the text
was missing. I'm just in the mood for the story you relate. Great job!

Dawn Peterson
California Academy of Sciences

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Thomas" <r_thomas@ACAD.FANDM.EDU>
To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
Cc: <D_Riordan@ACAD.FANDM.EDU>; <C_Leayman@ACAD.FANDM.EDU>;
<W_Simpson@ACAD.FANDM.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: paleonet J. Vertebrate Paleo at risk in NJ and PA


> Colleagues:
>
>       re:  Library copies of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology at
risk
>
>       Watch out for Donald B. Hanson, of Little Falls, New Jersey.
>
> About two years ago, forty articles running to several hundred pages,
> principally papers on fossil cetaceans, were found to have been
> excised from nine volumes of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
> in the Franklin & Marshall College library.
>
> Subsequently, the journal was restored and sequestered behind the
> check-out desk.  Last summer, a person identifying himself as Mr.
> Hanson came in to consult the JVP.  He made copies of two or three
> articles, one of them on fossil whales.
>
> Today, Mr. Hanson returned to our library, again wishing to use the
> JVP.  He gave the student assistant four pages torn from a volume of
> the journal, apparently to show what he wanted.  Our librarian was
> able to match the tears on two of these pages unequivocally with
> scraps remaining in the binding of our copy of the journal.
>
> Mr. Hanson was arrested by the Lancaster police and charged with
> criminal mischief.  Thanks to our librarians, first for identifying
> Mr. Hanson, and then for catching him red-handed!
>
> Apologies to those of you who live and work beyond Mr. Hanson's
> reach, who do not need this information.
>
> Kind regards,   Roger Thomas
> --
> Roger D. K. Thomas
> John Williamson Nevin Professor of Geosciences
> Editor, "Historical Biology"
>
> Department of Geosciences
> Franklin & Marshall College
> Lancaster
> Pennsylvania 17604-3003
>
> FAX:    717-291-4186
> Office telephone:  717-291-4135
> Home telephone:   717-560-0486
>