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Anybody with $2,000,000 to spare?

Posted: 04 Sep 2003, 17:04
by Silurus
If you are wondering what to do with the spare 2 million dollars lying around, you might want to consider this.
That's one serious fish library you get with all that moolah.

Posted: 04 Sep 2003, 17:32
by DeLBoD
If only I had some spare change in my pocket. :lol:

Posted: 04 Sep 2003, 18:09
by clothahump
I wonder if they have sold it, the site is 6 years old. :?:

Posted: 04 Sep 2003, 18:16
by Silurus
The site is 6 years old, but the library was put up for sale only in late July.
Doubt it's sold at this time.

Posted: 04 Sep 2003, 18:37
by clothahump
Missed the date HH, I notice they will not take offers.

Posted: 04 Sep 2003, 19:25
by Rusty
Only 124 tons of books for that much dough?

HH, does UMMZ have that kind of money? :twisted:

If only...

Rusty

Posted: 04 Sep 2003, 19:35
by Silurus
This is not a collection of TFH books by far, and there's a lot of really good stuff in there.
Still, with many of the old books printed on acid paper, one wonders if the better part of the collection will fall apart someday.
HH, does UMMZ have that kind of money?
We are considering the purchase at the moment and a purchase request has been submitted to the library, I think.

Posted: 04 Sep 2003, 20:00
by clothahump
one wonders if the better part of the collection will fall apart someday.
As will everything HH, I would love to see the collection.

Posted: 05 Sep 2003, 10:48
by coelacanth
Silurus wrote: Still, with many of the old books printed on acid paper, one wonders if the better part of the collection will fall apart someday.
So, what you'll need is a fully trained Conservator! Hmmm, do I know of any? Yes, my partner! Tell you what, we'll come over, she can support me until we sucessfully lobby UMMZ into letting us set up a large purely freshwater Public Aquarium with full research facilities, and then we'll have the perfect study centre for the All Catfish Project! :idea: