[NHCOLL-L:4449] FW: statement for peers - theft from NHM

[Watkins-Colwell, Gregory]

Posted for Clare Valentine [c.valentine at nhm.ac.uk]


Dear All,
This has been released to the UK press at 11.30am today in a joint press conference by the NHM (Richard Lane - Director of Science) and the Hertfordshire police. We will also be telling key bird curators, and releasing it to various bird curator mailbases to let colleagues around the world know what has happened to us as we were quite obviously targeted.
Although we are only able to release certain amounts of information due to this being an on-going case we felt it our duty to let colleagues know and have the agreement of the police to do so, so if you have any questions we will do our best to answer them. You can either contact me or Mark Adams in the Bird Group.
Best wishes,

Clare Valentine
Head of  Collections
Department of Zoology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
Tel: + 44 (0)207 942 5521
Fax: + 44 (0)207 942 5054
Member at Large on the Council of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections: http://www.spnhc.org
ICOM-Conservation Committee Natural History Collections Working Group Coordinator http://www.icom-cc.org
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