Amongst the several points in his long and detailed response to mine: >On Thu, 1 May 1997, Antony F Anderson wrote: > Subject: RE: staff code of ethics > > I maintain that a prudent course of action for the City of Toulouse - > consistent with following the ICOM Code - would have been > to mothball plans for a donation until all ownership issues had > been definitively settled in the Spanish Courts. However the City > thought differently and went ahead with the donation. Of course I agree that this is the proper course of action for a museum to take while ownership is contested in the courts (or uncertain in any other way). Patrick Boylan