Re: Antonio's grant

[Allan Edels <edels@msn.com>]

Since Dr. Dalla Vecchia is seeking $863 US, if 100 of us each contributed 
the proverbial sawbuck ($10.00 US [I can tell you some of the history of 
this slang]), he'd have $1000.00 US, more than enough to take care of 
everything.

Please remember that Fabio did not ask for money, he merely asked where he 
might apply for some.

I'd like to be able to contribute more money, even directly to the people 
doing the work.  My personal circumstances prohibit me from donating TOO 
much, but $10.00 every now and then is certainly do-able. If I had real 
money, I'd probably set up a fund or something to handle various grants that 
fall though the cracks.  (There are some DML or former DML members who have 
done something similar). And, yes, I would like a PDF.

Around 20 years ago, Dr. Peter Dodson did something similar:  His wife (and 
I don't who else) baked dinosaur cookies and sold them at an unrelated 
celebration that was being held outside of the Acadamy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia (ANSP).  This was to raise money to purchase a specimen that 
he initially believed was a new species of _Brachyceratops_.  He was going 
to make the species name "populi" - i.e. for the people.  [He was trying to 
raise $5000.00 US].  This specimen is now known as _Avaceratops lammersii_ 
(or is that "lammersorrum"? :-)).

My 2 cents (or is that $10?),

Allan Edels



> From: Tommy Bradley <htomsirveaux@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: htomsirveaux@hotmail.com
> To: frank@blissnet.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Antonio's grant
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:15:29 -0400
>
> Frank Bliss said:
> > Does anyone have a problem with this approach in this forum other than the 
> > fact that we can't do >this all the time?
>
> Not at all.  Just tell me where to send the money.
>
> > Passing the hat around for dinosaur research???
>
> It beats spending all my petty cash on myself.
>
> Tommy Bradley
>
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