Well, this sounds more plausible. What do y'all think?
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Erik Olson
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:19:33 -0800
From: Loh Kwek Leong <timebomb@pacific.net.sg>
To: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
Subject: Re: Question about Prof. Tan
Hi, Eric,
Nice to hear from you.
Professor Benito Tan speaks and writes English. He's a Filipino by birth
but American by nationality. He teaches Biology in
one of our universities but his expertise is mainly on the bryophytes in
the Malesian region. The prof is also a recipient of the Richard Spruce
award for his work on mosses. Only recently, he was made vice-president
of the association of bryologists or something
like that.
He gives presentations often but I'm not sure if they are the kind AGA
members would be interested in. Most mosses
are terrestrial, you see, and the professor, before he met us, knew only
of one aquarium moss and that is Java Moss.
He's quite fascinated though by the variety of aquarium mosses now
available and is currently working on a book on the native mosses of
Singapore. I've seen one of the prof's presentation in his laptop and it
talks mostly of the life cycles of various terrestrial
mosses. There's one moss, by the way, which is named after him.
The prof is a busy man so although I'm quite sure he will be interested in
giving the talk, there's a possibility he won't be able
to make it. If the professor is available, however, I can help him by
providing the pictures and samples of live mosses.
You can tell him that when you write to him. The prof's email address is:
dbsbct@nus.edu.sg
Good luck.
Loh K L
At 06:43 AM 2/16/2006, you wrote:
Hi KL,
Hope you are doing well. I see your forum is!
The club that is hosting this year's AGA Convention is very interested in
mosses and has asked to have Dr. Tan as a guest speaker. But there are
many questions, like "Can he give presentations?" "Can he speak English?"
"Would he be interested in flying to California and talking to a hobby
group?"
Karen Randall mentioned that you've been our contact for Dr. Tan for the
articles in TAG, so I thought I would just ask you directly if you have
any knowledge of these things before we go pestering him...
Best Regards,
- Erik
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