Re: The 'New' Natural History Museum

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/15/01 9:25:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jenny@amnh.org 
writes:


<< I had missed this artcicle.  I am now on the hunt to read it in its 
entirety.  Thanks for bringing it to our attention.>>

       By all means read the entire article. The statements are far less 
alarming when read in context. For instance, the last "self-loathing part 
reads:

"At best, the outcome is humility; at worst, it is self- loathing. We have 
returned, in a sense, to those old curiosity cabinets, except we are one of 
the species mounted on the wall, cantankerous mites in the midst of 
overwhelming diversity, objects of self-dissection and skeptical scrutiny." 

       I'll buy that. DV