Salomon Aaron

And we are helping museums acquire specimens by kind of finding the private donors to acquire the specimens for the museums.

And we had one of the ones, because I know that you guys are going to touch on science and whether or not the private market kind of takes away from science and research.

Yeah.

So just to kind of jump into that question.

I imagine.

So obviously it's very sad in some instances where as a result of the private trade, specimens are not available to museums or they might be lost to science.

But as a kind of commercial dealer, I do believe that on the balance, the public is better off because of the private trade as a result of science.

kind of so many dinosaurs would not ordinarily be discovered if it were not for the private trade.

And also we have, we try where possible.

And of course no one is perfect.

We have managed to make privately discovered dinosaur fossils

to be able to find their way to museums as a result of private buyers.

So last year we had a high profile sale of a completely new species, which we acquired.

We showed to the Natural History Museum in the UK.

They loved the specimen.

They really wanted it.

They said this would be a transformative piece for their collection.

And then we placed it on kind of unconditional reserve for them and went out and tried to find a private buyer.

And six to nine months later, we found a private collector who agreed to acquire it for the museum and also make funds available for research.

So that's an instance where because of the private trade, we've been able to do something good for kind of the public and for the museums that we work with.