Re: [AGA-sc] Response from KL!

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

This is a bit comforting and a bit unsettling. Yes, he speaks English and can 
give presentations. However, Oy! It's a lot of money for mosses and mostly 
terrestrial at that. And it's a lot of money added on top of Wilson. 
 
Do we *want* to ask him? He's definitely a great "B" side of the record. 
 
Otoh, SF has some ardent moss fans but otoh,  SF isn't putting up dime one for 
this event. We have $1800 in the budget for speaker travel. Do we think this 
will be within budget? Are we getting a major draw for the money?
 
 
sh
 

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Olson" erik@thekrib.com


> Well, this sounds more plausible.  What do y'all think?
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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:
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