I've struggled with writing numbers on my shells for a good amount of time.
I just cant do it for some reason. I guess the photo of each shell, saved
on discs, would be how I "number" them. If I have more than one specimen of
a species, the photos come in very handy, rather than to reference a
catalog number to find the shells info, the info for the shell is in the
photo! I suppose this method is a bit primitive, but it is the beginning to
my computer cataloging. I still keep many a notebook of information on my
specimens ( it's great insurance!)
LT
> [Original Message]
> From: Frederick W. Schueler <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 12/17/2005 11:42:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Cataloging
>
> Lyle Therriault wrote:
>
> > Personally I do not mark my specimens with a numerical number.
>
> * there's a lot of good ideas in this post, but I'll comment on
> labelling the shells with their number or data. Cultural museums insist
> that their cataloguing methods not mark or deface the specimens in any
> way, and I once was seriously flamed on a museum list for suggesting
> writing a catalogue number on a kind of cultural specimen, in the same
> way one writes numbers on shells.
>
> On the other hand, a biological specimen is an artifact created, from
> the body of an organism, to document the occurrence and characterisitics
> of a species at a site & time (this is more obvious in the case of a
> mammal skin or an herbariuum specimen than it is in the case of a shell
> picked up on a beach), so it's not inapporpriate to mark it in a way
> that will facilitate its association with its data.
>
> In Strayner & Jirka's Pearly Mussels of New York, it's striking how
> important they found it to be to have the location written on Unionid
> shells of species not previously regarded as occurring in the State or
> in particular regions, showing that whatever has happened between the
> specimen and its data over the decades, at least the original collectior
> believed that the shell came from "Sodus Bay."
>
> fred.
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