Green Options » Academy of Natural Sciences http://greenoptions.com/tag/academy-of-natural-sciences Posts tagged 'Academy of Natural Sciences' Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:39:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en A Species in Your Name for a Lifetime of Service? Priceless http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/11/a-species-in-your-name-for-a-lifetime-of-service-priceless/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/11/a-species-in-your-name-for-a-lifetime-of-service-priceless/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:39:27 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/11/a-species-in-your-name-for-a-lifetime-of-service-priceless/ Mark Sabaj Pérez/ANSP at The Academy of Natural Sciences)Now here’s a heart-warming story to make us forget, at least for a time, all the depressing stats regarding U.S. workers: a guy who spent 37 years as the mailroom supervisor for the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadephia has received, as a thank-you … his very own species of catfish.

Frank Gallagher, who oversaw the academy’s mailroom for nearly four decades and earned a reputation as the go-to guy for learning who was doing what — “They used to call me ‘the grapevine,’ ” Gallagher said — has been immortalized as the inspiration for Rhinodoras gallagheri, a new species of catfish described Mark Sabaj Pérez, a fish scientist with the academy.

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