Talk:Robert Bell (Canadian geologist)

A fact from Robert Bell (Canadian geologist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/January.

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Private library[edit]

Where do we get the fact about his book collection weighing 26 tons? This section then goes onto say it 'contained hundreds of books'. 26 tons of paper is surely many thousands of books. So if it really weighed that much, the sentence should be updated to thousands. If it only contained books numbering in the hundreds, the weight fact should maybe be revisited, or at least given a reliable source.--duncan 18:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check out A Search for Gold: Reconstructing a Private Library-The Case of Dr. Robert Bell to read more about the vast collection of books and artifacts (think heavy rocks). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Clerks (talk • contribs) 18:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]