Message-ID: <57144.128.32.214.106.1204845343.squirrel@calmail.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:15:43 -0800 (PST)
From: irmis@berkeley.edu
To: mike@indexdata.com
Delivery-date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:15:55 +0100
Subject: NMMNH&S Visit

Mike;

I am writing to confirm that Bill Parker did visit the NMMNH&S
paleontology collections on 4/9/2003.  I can confirm this because I
traveled to the museum with him, and also visited the collections this
day.  I distinctly remember talking to Dr. Lucas, and particularly his
comment that Bill should re-name "Desmatosuchus" chamaensis after Andy
Heckert.  Dr. Lucas explicitly allowed us to photograph the material and
even told us that we could remove the ammonium chloride coating the
specimens if necessary (ammonium chloride is commonly used to provide a
uniform color for specimens in black and white photos - you can see that
the specimens were coated with this substance in the original publication
of the material by Zeigler et al. 2002).

Feel free to cite any of this message.

Regards,
Randall Irmis