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Make It HappenSpecific projects need contributions to make them happen. Please may we have your support. Thank you.WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY UPDATEAmount requested is $530 to purchase an informative Helicoplacus specimen for classroom teaching and science projects. Books and publications are needed in support of specific education, research and public participation projects of the Institute. Your donation will help us have the resources to carry out our mission.Amount requested for 2009 is $1,500The Institute seeks a donation or series of donations to support acquiring these scientific books, monographs and reprints. The wish list also includes books to engage young people. The American Horseshoe Crab (Harvard Univ. Press, $107.50) Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas (National Geographic, $65) Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An epoch tale of a scientist and an artist on the ultimate 5,000 mile paleo road trip. By paleontologist Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and Alaskan artist Ray Troll. 2007. ISBN: 978-1-55591-451-6 Fulcrum Press. Also the accompanying Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway map. ISBN: 978-1-55591-659-6. Book $29.95 and map $12.95 to be published 15 October 2007. Faune dévonienne de Bolivie, by R. Kozlowski, 1923. Annales de Paleontologie 12:1-112, with 10 plates. Out of print; estimated $125.00, but price and availability varies greatly. The study of trace fossils. R. W. Frey (ed.) 1975. Speinger-Verlag, New York. Out of print; estimated $160, but price and availability varies greatly. Indiana Department of Geology and Natural History, Sixteenth Annual Report, 1888, 472 pp., 10 plates. Out of print; estimated $40.00, but price and availability varies greatly. UPDATE: The History of Life (fourth edition), by Richard Cowen, 2005, has been generously donated by Diane Granville and Ira Perelle -- Thank you for this generous supportUPDATE: The Devonian rocks of southeastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio, by G.M. Ehlers, E.C. Stumm & R.V. Kesling. 1951, has been generously donated by Diane Granville and Ira Perelle -- Thank you for this generous supportHelp MPRI be an ambassador for international cooperation and understandingAmount requested for 2009 is $4,000Studies in marine and paleobiological science are truly international efforts. MPRI affirms the shared interests of engaged citizens, scientists and educators of all nations who are involved in studying, understanding, conserving and preserving the world heritage of living and fossil organisms. The Institute uses its presence, contacts and foreign travel to be an ambassador for international cooperation and understanding by encouraging communication and research among scientists of different countries. Many of the research projects of the Directors are international cooperative projects. The Institute seeks a donation or series of donations to support sending scientific books, monographs and reprints to foreign scientists who do not have access to these materials in their institutional libraries or where library facilities are completely lacking, and to support travel to meet with foreign scientists, educators and interested citizens for the purpose of encouraging communication and research among scientists of different countries. Help to preserve our world fossil heritageAmount requested for 2009 is $6,000The Institute seeks a donation or series of donations to support acquisition of fossils for teaching, exhibition and research and to preserve our fossil heritage. The specific fossils to be purchased are usually based on windows of opportunity as collectors put specimens up for sale. We have many examples of lost opportunities due to insufficient funds at the time of offer. However, in a few situations, a collector or dealer will cooperate with MPRI and hold specimens while we seek donors to enable the purchase. A pressing need is to have friends and supporters who will act to acquire scientifically important specimens at the moment that the specimens are available for acquisition. Lost opportunities cannot be recaptured. In many instances the specimens are so rare or special that they are simply one-of-a-kind. In other instances the supply is so limited that the window of opportunity may last only a few weeks or months. These quick-action circumstances preclude going through a grant-seeking cycle to make the acquisition. We know of at least one museum where there are friends of the collection who will respond to the moment by bidding on eBay or taking similar instant action to try to acquire specimens that are significant to the public and scientific mission of the institution. Please let us know if you would like to support the MPRI Fossil Heritage Collection in this participatory, exciting, and satisfying way. PLEASE SEE WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY UPDATE AT PAGE HEADPlease help us acquire the following materials for classroom use:portable display cases for classroom and lecture venue: model 075 (Allstate Mfg. Co., Perth Amboy $111 each) Fossils from the oldest fossil-bearing rocks, to show students the earliest parts of the fossil record. These fossils are from the Pre-Cambrian and Cambrian Eras. Wish list includes stromatolites, archaeocyathids, Hyolithes, Helicoplacus, brachiopods, trilobites, monoplacophoran mollusks, trace fossils, ediacaran fossils, soft-body fossils, etc. Looking for quality specimens that students will be interested to see and handle. Price ranges in the Geological Enterprises, Inc., Ardmore, OK, catalog are $60 to $1500. Ordovician sea stars from the Czech Republic Amount needed to preserve these fossils: $650.00 UPDATE: Funds to purchase these Ordovician sea stars from the Czech Republic were generously donated by Dan and Anne Pruzan. -- Thank you for making this acquisition possible
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