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Posted on behalf of Judith Price of the CMN, who is not subscribed to this list. Please send your responses to her directly. She has sent a very thoughtful commentary. >>> "Judith Price" <JPRICE@MUS-NATURE.CA> 1:23:01 PM Monday, March 18, 2002 >>> On the question of "names for sale", perhaps paleontologists don't feel the same sense of urgency as some others in the field of systematics. Please look at http://www.all-species.org/firstmeeting_summary.html This is a well-written summary of the state of our progress in systematics and some ideas to help coordinate our efforts. The whole thing is EXPENSIVE. Are any of us getting enough money from the government alone to do this? Government money is taxpayers' money. If we can convince them, even one at a time that the effort is worthwhile, that they should care that we are losing species faster than we are naming them, then perhaps we can increase those base funds. The Nature Discovery Fund of the Canadian Museum of Nature allows people to make a personal investment in this process. It is simply a directed donation to a specific task within an institution, not a new idea in itself, but instead of an obscure single line of acknowledgment in an annual report, we recognize donors in a real way. Please re-read our description of the fund at: http://www.nature.ca/research/ndfund/ndfund_e.cfm and consider the possible benefits to science. See also the discussion of the German foundation BIOPAT in Science magazine in early 1990 (volumes 287 and 288), and the foundation's web-site at http://www.gtz.de/biopat/english/eng-biopat-tour1.htm Judith (Ms) Judith C. Price Secretary, Canadian Society of Zoologists Assistant Collection Manager, Invertebrates Canadian Museum of Nature P.O. Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 jprice@mus-nature.ca tel. 613 566-4263 fax 613 364-4027 Please visit us at http://www.nature.ca
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