contact me for any reason can still use my normal e-mail
address.
Thank you and good night!
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL: 0131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
Celt
Dear List
An interesting article, I will access the original on the Science Advances
website to get the whole story. However, I found the EarthSky piece full of
some very fundamental errors!
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums
at the moment so traipsing around in a sparsely populated
area with poor weather, poor light and poor visibility is probably not
advisable.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL: 0131
that it is open and the hotels and smaller shows
around the city still seem to attract a lot of people. Long may it continue.
Hope to see a few of you there.
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
er and put it on display in an exhibition of her work.
This piece of news generated a great deal of, mainly negative, comment on the
list. Can someone point out to me how this use of a meteorite, to make a
weapon, is different (for better or worse) to the artwork my friend created?
Cheers
Peter David
Anne and all the Meteorite Community
Wishing all my friends and acquaintances around the globe a very happy and
successful New Year from bonnie Scotland. I hope to see a few of you in Tucson
again.
A guid New Year tae yin an' a'.
Good hunting
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Adam
I agree with Mike on this. My day job is curator of minerals and this doesn't
look like a natural nugget to me.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL: 0131 247 4283
E
Morning Sky Watchers
Check the date of this - a bit close to 1st April for my liking
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL: 0131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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reason than we gave the
wrong answer.
Social media is a powerful tool. I would say that it is mostly benign, even
trivial, in the overwhelming number of cases. But just occasionally things do
get out of hand.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
Hello Friends and Colleagues
Well, what can I say? I'll take a dozen please! Laughed so much I fell off my
chair.
Have a great weekend
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL: 0131
.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL: 0131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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Pete Pete (so good they named him twice)
Who should contact you? I do know who John Kashuba is but what is the problem?
Hope he is OK?
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Mineralogy
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL
what you feel. If anyone wants
to contact me about this please do so off list and I will be happy to reply. In
the meantime I think that it is time to close down this particular thread.
Best Wishes
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
important - maybe in a hundred years we will take
a different view.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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From: Graham Ensor [mailto:graham.en...@gmail.com]
Sent: 05 August 2014 20:40
To: Peter Davidson
Cc
(and possibly
others as well) to fashion into harpoons and tools or indeed the ancient
Egyptians for collecting Libyan desert glass to create jewellery for the
Pharaohs?
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00
eyebrows and rattled a few cages. I am mulling
over the idea of asking Katie if I could present these items at Ensisheim one
year.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
these layers of time, history and space. Eventually I would like to
send the meteorite back into Space, though that might not be for many years.
Well the many years have now past and Katie has send the recast meteorite into
space.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
Anne
Bon anniversaire !
Although we haven't known each other for that long, I feel you are one of my
oldest and most trusted friends. We haven't had the chance to speak for a
while, but I will be sure to look you up in Tucson in 2015.
Many happy returns
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator
, or it did the last time I was there in 2011.
Hope this helps
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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donations to the collections (though
that would be nice) but loans. I will listen to all offers and all e-mails will
be answered. There is no urgency at the moment, but I will be looking to start
firming up on my ideas as soon as possible.
Regards
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
or co-author? If your contract specifies you and
you alone as author, then maybe a co-author can help to circumvent this
problem. Have a talk with your own lawyer and see what they say.
Bon chance!
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
serve to encourage other to do the same -
unfortunately this also means curators and other museum workers.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Senior Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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. This piece
certainly did not have any connection with local glassmaking.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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) to read, or refer to The Guardian (and its sister
Sunday paper the Observer) when they want to find out anything about the UK
political scene that is not tainted by the right-wing bias of most of the UK
press.
Kindest Regards
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242
Hello Hunter Gatherers
Unerringly accurate in many cases.
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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contained therein in whatever way they
deem fit. So the Press Release may have been accurate and correct, but the
reporting of it in the media may not.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david
not freshly exposed. Sorry, I
know it has almost become axiomatic to call everything coming out of China a
fake, but this must surely be!
Hoots mon!
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Natural Sciences Department
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
TEL
Lieber Bernd
Many congratulations. Now when people call you a star, you truly are! OK, so it
is not a star but a dwarf planet, but you are a giant of the meteorite
community.
Mit besten Wünschen aus Schottland
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West
in the Glenn Huss catalogue was
different from the specimen in our collection by a factor of two (ours is less
than half the weight of the original). I wonder if anyone on the list
purchased a Wellman (c) from David New in the 1970s or 80s? The Huss Collection
number is H39.125
Cheers
Peter Davidson
number on our specimen with the register number in the
catalogue. I am also keen to add any additional information into our own
database here. All replies will be gratefully received.
PS Notice I have resisted talking about the death of Margaret Thatcher (oops!)
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator
Martin
Thanks for the information. As always you always seem to have some very useful
and important information. I am aware of the other e-mail but I don't have time
at the moment to consider my reply - soon!
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242
Zelimir
It is good to hear from you. I agree that Wellman (c) seems the obvious choice,
but it would be nice to confirm that officially some day. Thank you for all
the other information as well. It is all very useful.
Have a good weekend
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums
Jason and Martin
I agree with Art, please continue your argument off-list.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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John
I have not heard from Rob about this. If this is recognised, then I am happy to
consider putting in an offer.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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Regine
This is really great. We have a few Indian meteorites in the collection. But I
hadn't realised how many there where until I saw them pinpointed on a map.
Many thanks
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
00 44 131
, May 1830).
I have of course thanked Shawn off list and asked his permission to make my
gratitude and his generosity much more public through the MetList.
Thank you Shawn
Have a great weekend everyone
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
is in London, do go along and see it and tell us what you think.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2012/jul/22/meteorite-katie-paterson-field-sky
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Mike
As the father of two daughters myself, I particularly feel your pain.
Please accept my deepest and most sincere condolences.
All the best from Scotland
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
Dear Mike and other listees
I have samples of both the Benares and the Weston in the collections here. The
Benares comes in at 1.27kg and the Weston at 390g. The Weston sample is one of
the biggest outside the US I believe. Sorry no trades.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
and Others Similar to it, and on Some
Associated Natural Phenomena.
Über Feuer-Meteore, und über die mit denselben herabgefallenen Massen.
There is further information here:
http://www.meteoroids.de/inter_main_chladni.htm
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
at the
Convention centre (Minerals from Bisbee, Arizona). Come and have a look
if you can.
Best Wishes
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Scotland
Tel: 00 44 131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david
Greetings Earthlings
Munich is just a week away and I thought I would let people know that I will be
there as usual and if anyone wants to meet up for a beer and a chin-wag, just
let me know and I would be delighted to see you.
Hope to see you soon
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
. Some
incidents are being ascribed to Somalis coming over the border, but some
also seem to be local Kenyans.
Best Wishes Everyone (and stay safe!)
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Scotland
0131 247 4283
p.david
will
drive you mad. I am not sure if this also applies to Lunar rocks and meteorites
- whether they are real or false! Still, best to take no chances.
See you soon
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
good - how did Graham Ensor get in so many? See you all in Denver
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Scotland
tel: 0131 247 4283
e-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
Airshow, Saturday
Carl and all Listees
Thank you for your erudite and well argued contribution. I could not
agree more.
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Scotland
tel: 0131 247 4283
e-mail: p.david
for listening
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Scotland
Tel: 00 44 131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
New exhibition A Passion for Glass, National Museum of Scotland, Fri 20 May -
Sun 11
(or two) with old friends
and learn a little bit more about meteorites.
Next year, I will return and I am looking forward to it already. In the
meantime, I hope to meet some of the visitor in Munich and perhaps also in
Denver.
Have a great time everybody.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator
on the specimen label. I guess it is up to the
owner to decide what to do. Without seeing the pieces it is difficult to
give you anything other than general advice.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
.
Best Wishes from snowy Scotland
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Scotland
Tel: 00 44 131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
Shining Lights, the story of Scotlands lighthouses is now
Richard and Listees
We have a very fine 18g sample here in the collections of the National
Museum Scotland.
Cheers from a snowy Scotland
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Scotland
Tel
Dear All Listees
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all list members, no matter what
their beliefs or non-beliefs, all the very best for the holiday season and a
very happy and prosperous New Year.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National
shifting boundaries and covered a large
area of Central Europe from modern day Germany to Italy.
Wishing everyone the best over the holidays
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Scotland
Hi Listees
Anyone going this year?
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Scotland
Tel: 00 44 131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
Shining Lights, the story of Scotlands lighthouses
Dear All
Looks intriguing. Is it a comet or is it lightning? The multiple tails
suggest forked lightning to me. I will see if any of our numismatists can shed
any light.
Regards
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West
directions. The threat of cuts
and redundancies is also now looming ever closer. Please recognise that
we are all doing our best. We recognise, in turn, that we could do
better. In the end, we all want the same thing - to bring our wonderful
meteorites to a wider public.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator
am going to register the
Gardnos Impact Breccia in our collection and we have to make a record of who
donated the specimen. Hope this is OK?
Have a great weekend
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
as it saves the trouble of
having to dispose of them. It is, I admit, a fairly ad-hoc arrangement but I
now have quite a few to work with.
Hope everyone has a great weekend
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Dear All
The Ensisheim show is only a month or so away. I attended for the first time
last year and I am looking forward to renewing the many acquaintances I made
then. I fly from Edinburgh on Thursday 17th (Ash permitting) and return on
Monday 21st.
See you there
Peter Davidson
Curator
Carl and Debbie
If I can use an Americanism here, they are truly awesome!
Pete
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
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. You should take the chance to visit and while you are
here, feel free to pop your head round my door and say hello. I would be happy
to see you and show you the museums collection - you only have to ask.
Best Wishes
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
like they did
with the illegal collecting and trading in fossils and minerals. It will
never stop it, but it does make everyone in the business, or it should,
a little more wary.
Have a great weekend
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
or recommendations. If the time
comes when I can begin to make purchases for the collection, I will rely
heavily on the good a advice and experience of those dealers and
collectors I have come to trust.
Have a great weekend
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National
Museums like the Smithsonian and the AMNH.
Regards
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
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that with this message, we can draw a line under this topic and can I
urge all list members to please, please, please keep your postings on-topic and
on-message.
Best Wishes
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
, some specimens on the
market that are marketed as bornite are acid treated chalcopyrite.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
, straightforward words are my only
comfort. :-(
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
Meet Your Maker, the creative minds behind Scotland's
spine when I saw the 50+ mails
with the subject: Christian Anger.
My deepest condolences go out to his family for their sad loss.
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
2010 (or whatever year it is with you)
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
Meet Your Maker, the creative minds behind Scotlands crafts
am aware, they are not prohibited items. The only problem I can
see is the weight. I would check with the airline first to see a) that
it ok to carry meteorites on board and b) what is the maximum weight you
can carry as hand luggage.
Best of luck
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National
Martin and others
I will try and get to the dinner. See you there
Mit besten Wünschen aus Schottland
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
Martin
I will be there. Though I have to say I will be wearing my
mineralogist's hat.
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
that there is probably a ready market for the specimens.
Best Wishes
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
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for your attention
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
Salt of the Earth: famous faces with Scottish roots, photographed by Craig
Mackay
somehow lesser. This continues today where Scots is being eradicated by the
prevalence of English, despite a lively and diverse literary culture.
This is very much a brief summary of the arguments, and has nothing to do with
meteorites - many, many apologies.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator
on the
list and just replace my delete button from time to time as it wears
out!
Have a good weekend
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
name. So technically there should be no problem. But
in my life I have been called David Peterson, David Davidson and Peter
Peterson. I have also been addressed as Peter Ferguson and Peter Jamieson.
Where those ones came from I don't know. Too much trappiste!?!
Sante
Peter Davidson
Curator
is currently
studying law at University, I should have asked her first!
I will certainly not be leaving the list, though I often despair of the
acrimony and viciousness.
Wishing everyone a great day.
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
of the oxygen of publicity is better than
outright censorship.
But you are right, Martin, we are all here for meteorites. Let's be grown-up
about it.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Mike
Actually can we just skip the meteorite hunting and the chocolate and
concentrate on the case of Trappist Beer. I think if I could drink
enough of that 12% strength nectar, I could just about see anything I
want.
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection
a few difficulties:
Laphroaig
Bunnahabhein
Bruichladdich
Any takers?
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
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reasoning. We are all grown-ups, so let's act like them.
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Scotland
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
EDINBURGH
EH5 1JA
Scotland
Tel: 00 44 131 247 4283
E-mail: p.david...@nms.ac.uk
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were very interested because it was perhaps
evidence of early iron working from an area were none had been recorded from
previously.
As they say as one door closes another one opens!
Cheers
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242
!)
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5 1JA
Phone: +44 131 247 4283
p.david...@nms.ac.uk
www.nms.ac.uk
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. The people of Scotland own them, all five million of us,
and they are available for viewing either in galleries, online or by
appointment for free. You only have to ask.
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums Scotland
242 West Granton Road
Edinburgh
EH5
between museums/curators
and collectors/dealers. In my experience, most people are more than
happy to co-operate. But there is a widespread misconception about
public bodies and this is often hard to dispel.
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National Museums
can support this situation, but as everyone knows, the property market
upon which our banks build up their empires eventually collapsed and thus we
have arrived at the current financial crisis (simplistic I know).
Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
National Museums Collection Centre
National
it was your email that inspired me to pen this
message. I have spoken about this in other lists, in other places. The
meteorites will continue to fall, long after we are all gone. There should be
enough for everyone.
Don't forget us!
All donations gratefully accepted.
Peter Davidson
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