Make It Happen

Specific projects need contributions to make them happen. Please may we have your support. Thank you.

Your donations can make these significant acquisitions possible

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 2011 is $1,500

The 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.

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.

The most useful entry to the zoological literature is the Zoological Record. The electronic version is not a pdf of the printed version -- the electronic version is a datbase that does not produce search results that are as informative or as complete as examining the printed version -- I have made the comparison. The printed version is indispensible, and the database version is not a substitute. Sadly, however, the printed version is now priced out of range for individual scientists like myself, but it is so necessary that the hardship has to be endured. To support research on starfish at MPRI we need the portion of the Zoological Record that is section 5, Echinodermata. THEREFORE ----

MPRI could really use your help to purchase the 2010 issue of the Zoological Record, vol. 146, section 5 on Echinodermata, priced at $310, from Thomson Reuters, 1500 Spring Garden Street, Fourth Floor, Philadelphi, PA 19130, telephone 215-386-0100.

Other back-issues that are needed by MPRI are out-of-print and almost never up for sale -- here is the want list:

Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 117 for 1980
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 116 for 1979
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 115 for 1978
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 112 for 1975
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 110 for 1973
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 74 for 1937
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 73 for 1936
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 72 for 1935
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 71 for 1934
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 70 for 1933
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 69 for 1932
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 68 for 1931
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 67 for 1930
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 66 for 1929
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 65 for 1928
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 64 for 1927
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 63 for 1926
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 62 for 1925
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 61 for 1924
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 60 for 1923
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 59 for 1922
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 58 for 1921
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 57 for 1920
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 56 for 1919
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 55 for 1918
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 54 for 1917
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 53 for 1916
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 52 for 1915
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 51 for 1914
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 50 for 1913
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 49 for 1912
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 48 for 1911
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 47 for 1910
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 46 for 1909
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 45 for 1908
Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 29 for 1892 and prior

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 support

UPDATE: 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 support

Help MPRI be an ambassador for international cooperation and understanding

Amount requested for 2011 is $4,000

Studies 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 heritage

Amount requested for 2011 is $6,000

The 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.

OPPORTUNITY: page 24 of Geological Enterprises, Inc., Ardmore, OK [www.geologicalenterprises.com] catalog BULLETIN No. 61, has for sale ($600) a Urasterella specimen, Middle Ordovician age, found at Duck Creek Quarry, near Howard, Wisconsin. The specimen is on the MPRI Fossil Heritage wish list because the occurrence at this locality is not in the scientific literature and the specimen is nearly complete.

Your donations can make these significant acquisitions possible The Institute provides a learning and cultural opportunity for the community of Martha's Vineyatd Island by exhibiting and lecturing on ancient sea life at the public schools, libraries, environmental and conservation groups, and any other schools or groups that express interest. MPRI collaborates with the venue/host individuals to promote the exhibition to their communities. It is hoped that the exhibit will be on display in a public venue more-or-less continuously throughout the year. After exhibition and research the fossil specimens are deposited into the permanent collection of a museum such as the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.

Please 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.

UPDATE: Funds to purchase the below Ordovician sea stars from the Czech Republic were generously donated by Dan and Anne Pruzan. -- Thank you for making this acquisition possible

Significance: Specimens of the large and rare Ordovician sea star Bohemura from the Czech Republic are seldom available for acquisition, and material of this type is underrepresented in institutional collections. This acquisition preserved an important part of our world fossil heritage and makes the specimens available for education, research and museum display. In 2010 MPRI deposited these specimens into the Yale Peabody Museum for greatest access and impact for science and society.
bohemura

Photos by Hensken Fossils.

MPRI PRESENTS...

24 April 2012
presenting at the
VINEYARD HAVEN PUBLIC LIBRARY Horseshoe Crabs:
A Story of
Beach Trysts and
Blue Bloods with Susie Bowman,
Felix Neck Teacher
& Naturalist and Coordinator of the Island’s Spawning Horseshoe Crab Surveys, and
Fred Hotchkiss

Looking ahead
the Third Annual NATIONAL FOSSIL DAY will be celebrated at the OAK BLUFFS PUBLIC LIBRARY on Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4PM to 7:45PM. Save the date.

August 2012 presenting at the
Fourteenth (14th) International Echinoderms Conference, Brussels, Belgium

Our latest newsletter
describes how our supporters further
our mission.

Site Update!

Fossil
Heritage
Collection

Specimens purchased
with the help of our generous donors.

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Make It Happen Specific projects need contributions to make them happen. Please may we have your support. Thank you. Your donations can make these significant acquisitions possible 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 2011 is $1,500 The 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. 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. The most useful entry to the zoological literature is the Zoological Record. The electronic version is not a pdf of the printed version -- the electronic version is a datbase that does not produce search results that are as informative or as complete as examining the printed version -- I have made the comparison. The printed version is indispensible, and the database version is not a substitute. Sadly, however, the printed version is now priced out of range for individual scientists like myself, but it is so necessary that the hardship has to be endured. To support research on starfish at MPRI we need the portion of the Zoological Record that is section 5, Echinodermata. THEREFORE ---- MPRI could really use your help to purchase the 2010 issue of the Zoological Record, vol. 146, section 5 on Echinodermata, priced at $310, from Thomson Reuters, 1500 Spring Garden Street, Fourth Floor, Philadelphi, PA 19130, telephone 215-386-0100. Other back-issues that are needed by MPRI are out-of-print and almost never up for sale -- here is the want list: Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 117 for 1980 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 116 for 1979 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 115 for 1978 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 112 for 1975 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 110 for 1973 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 74 for 1937 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 73 for 1936 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 72 for 1935 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 71 for 1934 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 70 for 1933 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 69 for 1932 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 68 for 1931 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 67 for 1930 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 66 for 1929 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 65 for 1928 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 64 for 1927 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 63 for 1926 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 62 for 1925 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 61 for 1924 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 60 for 1923 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 59 for 1922 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 58 for 1921 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 57 for 1920 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 56 for 1919 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 55 for 1918 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 54 for 1917 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 53 for 1916 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 52 for 1915 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 51 for 1914 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 50 for 1913 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 49 for 1912 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 48 for 1911 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 47 for 1910 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 46 for 1909 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 45 for 1908 Zoological Record, Section Echinodermata, volume 29 for 1892 and prior 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 support UPDATE: 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 support Help MPRI be an ambassador for international cooperation and understanding Amount requested for 2011 is $4,000 Studies 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 heritage Amount requested for 2011 is $6,000 The 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. OPPORTUNITY: page 24 of Geological Enterprises, Inc., Ardmore, OK [www.geologicalenterprises.com] catalog BULLETIN No. 61, has for sale ($600) a Urasterella specimen, Middle Ordovician age, found at Duck Creek Quarry, near Howard, Wisconsin. The specimen is on the MPRI Fossil Heritage wish list because the occurrence at this locality is not in the scientific literature and the specimen is nearly complete. Your donations can make these significant acquisitions possible The Institute provides a learning and cultural opportunity for the community of Martha's Vineyatd Island by exhibiting and lecturing on ancient sea life at the public schools, libraries, environmental and conservation groups, and any other schools or groups that express interest. MPRI collaborates with the venue/host individuals to promote the exhibition to their communities. It is hoped that the exhibit will be on display in a public venue more-or-less continuously throughout the year. After exhibition and research the fossil specimens are deposited into the permanent collection of a museum such as the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. Please 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. UPDATE: Funds to purchase the below Ordovician sea stars from the Czech Republic were generously donated by Dan and Anne Pruzan. -- Thank you for making this acquisition possible Significance: Specimens of the large and rare Ordovician sea star Bohemura from the Czech Republic are seldom available for acquisition, and material of this type is underrepresented in institutional collections. This acquisition preserved an important part of our world fossil heritage and makes the specimens available for education, research and museum display. In 2010 MPRI deposited these specimens into the Yale Peabody Museum for greatest access and impact for science and society. Photos by Hensken Fossils.				MPRI PRESENTS... 24 April 2012 presenting at the VINEYARD HAVEN PUBLIC LIBRARY Horseshoe Crabs: A Story of Beach Trysts and Blue Bloods with Susie Bowman, Felix Neck Teacher & Naturalist and Coordinator of the Island’s Spawning Horseshoe Crab Surveys, and Fred Hotchkiss Looking ahead the Third Annual NATIONAL FOSSIL DAY will be celebrated at the OAK BLUFFS PUBLIC LIBRARY on Thursday, October 18, 2012, 4PM to 7:45PM. Save the date. August 2012 presenting at the Fourteenth (14th) International Echinoderms Conference, Brussels, Belgium Our latest newsletter describes how our supporters further our mission. Site Update! Fossil Heritage Collection Specimens purchased with the help of our generous donors.
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