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>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?
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>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>Curator, Paleontological Collection
>Geological Survey of Alabama
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See! I told you some museums still used the quieter patients from the
Lunatic Asylum to move specimens!
* G Thomas Watters *
* Ohio Biological Survey & *
* Aquatic Ecology Laboratory *
* Ohio State University *
* 1315 Kinnear Rd. *
* Columbus, OH 43212 USA *
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