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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chris butterworth" data-source="post: 3290181" data-attributes="member: 64315">I know I said that the post above would be my last but your reply is considered and free of hyperbole,  so I feel I owe you a reply.Yes, like the demise of scientific egg collecting ( although that usually involved the destruction if an entire clutch, not an individual )  I can envisage a time when the taking of specimens from the wild will cease - and I look forward to that. As to your second point about "modern values". I have to ask, "Who's values?". I have just been diagnosed with AMD, it's not life threatening,  for most people it's just a bloody nuisance but, I spend a lot of my professional life looking down a microscope and my hobbies are birding and my motorbikes so it really impacts on all areas. News was released this week that scientists have come up with a way to reverse AMD..  :t:  Thankfully the research was carried out outside the USA, as it involves using foetal stem cells. I have to ask, again, "Who's values?"</blockquote>