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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