[meteorite-list] UofA giving collection to dealer control.
    M come Meteorite Meteorites 
    mcomemeteorite2004 at yahoo.it
       
    Fri Jan 20 10:13:11 EST 2006
    
    
  
This is the market....your words time ago
Matteo
--- Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter at comcast.net> ha
scritto: 
> The more I think of this, the more outraged I am.
> I have donated tens of thousands of $$$ of
> meteorites to the UofA, and now 
> they have been turned over to the control of a
> meteorite dealer.
> I wonder if some of them will be submitted at the
> auction in Tucson? This is 
> in my opinion a huge conflict of interest. How can
> they do that? Why not put 
> Christies in charge of the Smithsonian art
> collection, and Butterfields in 
> charge of the American Museum of Natural History?
> When did Universities 
> start doling out the job to commercial dealers?
> Is anyone outraged at this?
> No more donations to the UofA for me, I might find
> my Moon and Mars rocks on 
> http://www.meteorite-lab.com/.
> 
> This is total bunk, I guess museums are for sale.
> 
> Mike Farmer 
> 
> 
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