THE GEOLOGICAL CURATOR VOLUME 10, NO. 10 CONTENTS EDITORIAL/GUEST EDITORIAL by Matthew Parkes/Jeff Liston ............................................................................................................... 549 ‘Fossillegal’: a symposium on ethics in palaeontology; EAVP, Haarlem, 6-7th July 2016 PUBLISH OR PROHIBIT? THE ETHICS OF PUBLISHING ON PRIVATELY-OWNED FOSSILS by Paul M. Barrett ................................................................................................................................ 551 PUBLISH BEFORE THEY PERISH: DEALING WITH PRIVATELY-OWNED SPECIMENS IN PALAEONTOLOGY by Oliver W. M. Rauhut ............................................................................................................. 561 40 YEARS AS A FOSSIL PROSPECTOR, COLLECTOR AND EXHIBITION MAKER Volume 10 Number 10 by H.J. 'Kirby' Siber ........................................................................................................................... 565 IVORY PIANO KEYS FROM MASTODONS: WHY POOR ANTHROPOCENTRIC LEGISLATION ENDANGERS FOSSILS by Jeff Liston ........................................................................................................................................ 569 PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR PALAEONTOLOGISTS - THE DUTCH POLDER MODEL by Natasja den Ouden and Ronald Pouwer .................................................................................... 577 “THE EXTREME ALWAYS SEEM TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION"*: CONFLICT IN PALAEONTOLOGY AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A SOLUTION (*WATERS 1988) by Anthony Maltese ........................................................................................................................... 585 FIGHTING ABOUT FOSSILS (AGAIN)? - A HISTORY OF SCIENCE VIEW OF A CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSY IN PALAEONTOLOGY by Elizabeth D. Jones ........................................................................................................................... 591 FOSSIL LEGISLATION - PROTECTION OR DESTRUCTION? by Raimund Albersdörfer ............................................................................................................................ 603 DODGY FOSSILS: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION AND THE MEANING OF 'CULTURAL PROPERTY' by John Martin ........................................................................................................................... 607 SITE-SPECIFIC LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF PALAEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES by Charlie Underwood and David J. Ward .................................................................................. 617 PALAEONTOLOGICAL HERITAGE: WHY LEGISLATE FOR IT? by Jalusa Prestes Abaide ............................................................................................................ 633 WHY PALAEONTOLOGISTS MUST BREAK THE LAW: A POLEMIC FROM AN APOLOGIST by Dave Martill ......................................................................................................................... 641 The ethics of UK fossil collecting; from the shore to the store. GCG Seminar 6-7th December 2016 Proceedings of the COLLECTING DINOSAURS ON ERODING COAST - CASE STUDIES FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT by Martin C. Munt ......................................................................................................................... 651 ‘FOSSILLEGAL’ SYMPOSIUM ON ACQUIRING FOSSILS: A COMPLEX PICTURE by Janet Ulph ...................................................................................................................................... 657 ETHICS IN PALAEONTOLOGY IVORY TOWERS OF ENTITLEMENT?: THE COMMERCIALISATION OF ACADEMIC PALAEONTOLOGISTS by Jeff Liston ...................................................................................................................................... 671 and INTRODUCING THE REVISED CODE OF ETHICS FOR MUSEUMS by Alistair Brown ......................................................................................................................... 681 THE ETHICS OF UK FOSSIL COLLECTING: Additional paper DISCOVERY OF A WALRUS SKULL ON THE NORTH EAST YORKSHIRE FROM THE SHORE TO THE STORE COAST: A CALL FOR CLEARER GUIDELINES by Jennifer Dunne and Jim Middleton .............................................................................................. 687 THE GEOLOGICAL CURATOR GEOLOGICAL CURATORS’ GROUP Publication scheme Rster Cit N 296050 Two issues of The Geological Curator are pubished for each year (usually in the Spring and the Autumn); a complete volume consists of ten issues (covering five years) and an index. 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