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<DIV></DIV>Dear Friends,<BR><BR>Please consider signing this
petition:<BR><BR><B>Save the Museum of Natural History - MUSM (Lima-Peru) /
Salvemos el Museo de Historia Natural - MUSM (Lima-Peru) </B><BR><BR>The
authorities at the <I>Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos </I>in Peru are
planning to demolish the Natural History Museum which includes the best and most
complete Neotropical butterfly collection in Central and South America. This is
the same museum where the great Neotropical butterfly expert and "guru" Gerardo
Lamas works, and his many papers and publications have been of enormous help to
myself and to many friends, both professional and amateur. <BR><BR>The Natural
History Museum in Lima is an institution over 80 years old that includes the
largest collections of the flora and fauna of the country. The herbarium
includes over 500,000 plant specimens, the mammal collection near 37000, birds
28000, amphibians and reptiles 50000, fish 450000, insects and arachnids 750000,
molluscs 30000, geological samples and fossils 9000. It also includes historical
collections made by naturalists during the 19th and part of the 20th centuries
such as Raimondi, Taczanowski, Jelski, Stolzman, Weberbauer, Weyrauch,
Eigenmann, and Koepcke. <BR><BR>I have just read and signed the online petition
and urge you to do so too:<BR><BR> <A
href="http://www.PetitionOnline.com/musm1710/">http://www.PetitionOnline.com/musm1710/</A><BR><BR>I
personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree,
too. <BR><BR>If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider
signing it yourself.<BR><BR>Best wishes, and thank you for your
help,<BR><BR>Andrew <BR><BR><BR><PRE>Andrew Neild,
8 Old Park Ridings,
Grange Park,
London N21 2EU,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 8882 8324
Mob: +44 (0)794 1515 272
E-mail: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:andrew.neild@blueyonder.co.uk">andrew.neild@blueyonder.co.uk</A>
Web site: <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.thebutterfliesofvenezuela.com">http://www.thebutterfliesofvenezuela.com</A>
*** Published September 2008: Part 2 of The Butterflies of Venezuela ***
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