My only other concern is that your old IZ work area seems to contain specimens from other institutions (Univ. Miami?), but we have no records of an incoming loan in your name. For obvious reasons, we like to be aware of non-SI material in the building, so please clarify the status of these specimens with Marilyn and/or Vic. If they do belong to another institution, the transaction should be recorded in our transaction management system.Mismanaging specimens in a museum is how things get lost. Gross mismanagement such as this should have been grounds for immediate termination. The ID movement is not very good at picking its poster boys. You need someone with an exemplary record, no other reason for negative actions, to prove persecution.
I also liked the letter ticking off some of Sternberg’s violations of policy and concluding, “If I were to do this in any other museum I’d be run out of that town.” Apparently this guy was really handled with kid gloves.