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