Re: Kirkaldy and SVP Ethics Statement

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Jeffrey,
    Since I was talking about the future, I was making a prediction, not a 
claim.  If the academics continue to be so uncompromising, we will never 
know if uncooperativeness would have been limited to a small percentage of 
cases.
    The compromise I proposed would put high standards of documentation on 
those who want to publish on privately held material (including examination 
and documentation by professionals before publication takes place), higher 
standards than if the material were donated to a museum and more easily 
accessed.
    However, if you just across the board reject publication of privately 
held material, then I think this unwillingness to compromise will indeed 
lead to higher levels of uncooperativeness.  It will probably be a sort of 
self-fulfilling prophecy.
                     -------Ken
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> From: "Jeffrey Martz" <jeffmartz@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: jeffmartz@earthlink.net
> To: "Dinosaur" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Kirkaldy and SVP Ethics Statement
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:30:29 -0600
>
>  Ken Kinman wrote....
>  > Such documentation should be sufficient for the designation of 
> additional type specimens (lectotypes or whatever) in the small percentages 
> of cases where the private collectors are not cooperative in the future.
>
>      The "small percentage of cases"?  I'd like to see a few statistics to 
> back up THAT claim...
 LNJ *****************************************************************
>  Jeffrey W. Martz
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