Re: No Battle Intended

[Sharkkb8@aol.com]

Bill writes:
<< sometimes I forget that institutions do not care for
 meteorites the same as I do, and I feel judgemental.    >>

Bill's statement is so interesting, and I suspect that it's a feeling which
many other collectors share.  
I did an interview with Dr. Alan Rubin (UCLA) in the
last Meteorite Magazine, and one of the topics I wanted to explore was
the fairly strong resentment that some/many scientists and institutions have 
for the 
collector/dealer community at large.   And one of the *main* reasons Rubin 
gave,
as a justification, was the idea that collectors could not, or would not, 
care for 
the specimens as carefully as an institution.     
The fact that there is friction between the two "sides" is not overly 
surprising,
since, by nature, they sometimes work at cross-purposes to each other, but I 
do think
it's curious that each side has the perception that the *other* guys are 
problematic, 
when it come to the physical welfare of specimens.
Gregory

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