[Nhcoll-l] Another excellent article on the value of collections

[Barry OConnor]

I suppose there are two ways to deal with pretty birds: 1. don't work with
them; 2: publish in very obscure journals and don't publicize the work.
Prevailing wisdom says if you find a new bird, don't kill it. - Barry

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Ellen Paul <ellen.paul at verizon.net> wrote:

> This is a great article. Unfortunately, there is an even bigger problem
> when it comes to vertebrates and especially cute or pretty vertebrates. The
> reaction to the collection of a single bird by Chris Filardi was appalling
> to say the least. You can run articles like this until the end of time and
> people will still get hysterical over the collection of cute/pretty
> vertebrates.
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> Ellen
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> Ellen Paul
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> On 1/25/16 10:10 AM, Janet Waddington wrote:
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> I’m attaching a pdf of the article in case the link doesn’t work outside
> Canada.
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> This reporter has it spot on.
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