"Threat" to types (or institutions?)

[Benjamin Martin Waggoner]

On Sun, 9 Jul 1995, Peter Rauch wrote:

> Mike asks lots of good questions about the repatriation of ones national
> flora and fauna, and rightfully argues that "This is a critical issue
> to the form of our community into the next millenium.
>
> To take it down to a less serious level, however, I'd argue that they
> are welcome to their specimens, but I will keep the labels and pins.
> While the specimen would be freely returned, I'd have to charge for
> the value-added "accoutrements," at say:
>
>                     Pin-in-place    US$1000.00
>        Locality/collector labels    US$4000.00
>              Determination label    US$2000.00/determination
>                      Field notes    US$3000.00/page
>             Literature citations    US$5000.00/citation
>
Have you ever considered a job writing defense contracts for the
U.S. armed forces?

Ben Waggoner
WWWebStomper and Graduate Student on the Loose
UCMP

I heard it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,
But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
(What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of
        them?)

                                        Walt Whitman