[NHCOLL-L:1970] Re: Fwd: Re: Ironic Quotes from Bioscience

[David Richman]

Dear All:

I agree with Robin Panza.  I know of no other organization that is working 
at the same national level (except maybe SPNHC) other than the NSCA.  We 
need to support this organization more if we really want to be united.

It is easy to say "let us charge for our services," but quite another thing 
to make it stick.   Those who have tried have often just stopped doing any 
identification work at all. because they did not get much in the way of 
clientele and what they did get was not worth the bookkeeping.

Being called a "Ed Ricketts type" is to me a compliment, but than I'm an 
old scruffy field biologist!

Again, this is my opinion alone.

Sincerely,

David B. Richman

  At 04:50 PM 6/24/2003 -0400, Panza, Robin wrote:
> >>>From: carabid at mpm.edu [mailto:carabid at mpm.edu]
>Unfortunately we do not have a single systematics organization that all of
>us can regularly attend and participate in. We are split up into ologies,
>entomology, botany,  mammology, ornithology, etc. The Society of Systematic
>Biology used to be for systematists but now as far as I can tell from the
>Journal is only for molecular workers. <<<
>
>What about the Natural Science Collections Alliance (formerly Association of
>Systematics Collections)?  It is an association for professionals in NH
>museums and collections, rather than specifically systematists (some of whom
>are not associated with a collection), but it is definitely a national
>advocacy organization for museum collections and organism-based systematics.
>
>
>Anyone who feels the lack of organization should join NSCA and help it to
>become more powerful by representing more people.
>
>Usual disclaimers apply.
>
>Robin K Panza
>Section of Birds, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
>4400 Forbes Ave.
>Pittsburgh  PA  15213  USA
>phone:  412-622-3255
>fax:  412-622-8837
>panzar at carnegiemuseums.org

David B. Richman
Science Specialist/Graduate Professor and
Curator, The Arthropod Museum
Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science
MSC 3BE, Box 30003
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003Tel: (505) 646-2900
Web pages: http://taipan.nmsu.edu/people/richman/dbr.html
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