At 02:22 PM 12/7/96 -0500, you wrote: >Zirakzadeh Science Foundation, as part of its fund-raising efforts to >finance the building of a science museum, is offering a collection of >electrical and electronic calculators to science museums and >collectors. > While I am most sympathetic to the idea of creating a new science museum, I cannot help but feel a degree of alarm at the idea of selling collections for this purpose, it is a most dangerous road to travel and if memory serves me well is not exactly in accord with ICOM and other codes of practice. I would be very grateful if you could clarify your position here, as I may have misunderstood your intentions. IAN SIMMONS - A mind stretched by new ideas never returns to the same shape - RALPH WALDO EMERSON