Andy,
For those that can not be associated with the labels without 100% accuracy
should probably be used as driveway fill.  You could write out an
explanation for each instance and place with the specimens but no
researcher in their right mind would use them anyway.  Your call.
 
Kurt
 
At 02:18 PM 5/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>The Survey Paleontological Collection includes a large cabinet of fossils
>that was transported incorrectly, i.e., by moving it all at once instead of
>drawer by drawer. The fossil were all in chipboard trays and accompanied by
>paper labels, but none have numbers written directly on the shell. When the
>cabinet was tilted, some of the fossils were jostled into adjacent trays,
>always in the same direction. In some cases, it is easy to tell which
>fossils jumped from tray to tray; in others, it is not. The worst cases are
>those where specimens of the same species, but from different localities,
>were housed next to each other. I've been afraid to move or catalog
>anything in this cabinet. I can't just discard the specimens; they
>represent an entire stratigraphic interval and many were collected from
>localities that will never be accessible again. What's the best course of
>action?
>
>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>Curator, Paleontological Collection
>Geological Survey of Alabama
>