RE: George Maier Fund

["Gary Bartell" <garybartell at sprintmail_com>]

 copied text:>>>>These
graduate student positions already exist and the incumbents are the
ichthyologists of the future.>>>>>

  The problem with this is in most cases all these people know, is how to
pickle the fish they find.

<<<<<<<Nevertheless, it would be a good indicator of the philosophy of the
AKA and
would win us friends in the scientific community and would pay off in the
future in good will.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  Well I can tell you that I have on several occasions tried to get
information from the scientific community and got nothing. Seems to me that
most of them are so full of themselves that to answer a hobbist would be too
far below them.

 Just one example here every year Brian Waters goes on a collecting trip but
I have never seen him offer any of them for sale etc.  And Brian is not the
only one from the scientific community that this applies to.

  So I have to ask, just how does this help the hobby???

  Gary

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