Only two comments:

1.  When I worked at a large natural history museum that shall remain
nameless, agents from Fish and Wildlife pointed out to me that they expected
that museum and its staff to comply fully with all federal laws and
regulations since they served as an example to others.

2.  Can the rest of us expect the lack of fine or jail sentence when we find
ourselves in the same situation -- of "not knowing" that the feathers came
from regulated species?

Janice Klein
Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
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www.mitchellmuseum.org


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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:33 AM
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Subject: Scandal at the Smithsonian


There have been a couple of newsworthy museum stories
in the last 24 hours that I'm surprised this group has
bypassed.  The biggest of these involve Lawrence
Small, head of the Smithsonian:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37118-2004Jan21.html

Another article on this story can be found on the
MuseNews lists:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuseNews-Art
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuseNews-General
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuseNews-History
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuseNews-Science


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