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<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=18fe6f8f25ec0bc7509e65e97&id=b426909dcc&e=a271cda812"><font size="2">https://nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=18fe6f8f25ec0bc7509e65e97&id=b426909dcc&e=a271cda812</font></a><br></div><div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif"><br></div>"Statement of Task:<div style="font-size:16.6px;font-family:sans-serif"><br></div>"An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will review the role of biological collections ... to enable their continued use to benefit ... society.<br><br>" In particular the committee will:<br><br>"3. Describe ... and address issues of   ****broad societal importance****,   such as global environmental change, food security, conservation, and the bioeconomy."<div><br></div><div>Point 3 should constitute Volume I of the NASEM report, and it should be a substantive work. Otherwise, the rest of the report will be.... well, irrelevant. <br></div><div><br></div><div>("****...****" Emphasis mine])<br></div><div><br></div><div>Peter<br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Thiers, Barbara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bthiers@nybg.org" target="_blank">bthiers@nybg.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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