CH. VII] 



LABELING AND CATALOGING 



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Fig. 165. A part of a cabinet drawer seen 

 from above. In compartment No. 96 is repre- 

 sented a slide lying flat. The label of the 

 slide and the number of the compartment are ■ 

 so placed that the number of the compartment 

 may be seen through the slide. 7 he sealing 

 cement is removed at one place to show that in 

 sealing the cover-glass, the cement is put 

 partly on the cover and partly on the slide 



a 249. 253)- 



B. — This represents a section of the same 

 part of the drawer, (a) Slide resting as in 

 a. No. 96. The preparation is seen to be above 

 a groove in the floor of the compartment, (b) 

 One end of the slide is seen to be uplifted by de- 

 pressing the other into the bevel. 



(4). The drawers of the cabinet should be 

 entirely independent, so that any drawer may 

 be partly or wholly removed without disturb- 

 ing any of the others. 



(5). On the front of each drawer should be - 

 the number of the drawer in Roman numer- 

 als, and the number of the first and last com- 

 partment in the drawer in Arabic numerals 

 (Fig. 166). 



Fig. 166. Cabinet for Mi- 

 croscopical Specimens, show- 

 ing the method Of arrange- 

 ment and of numbering the 

 drawers and indicating the 

 number of the first and last 

 compartment in each drawer. 

 It is better to have the slides 

 on which the drawers rest 

 somewhat shorter, then the 

 drawer front may be entire 

 and not notched as here shown. 

 (From. Proc. Amer. Micr. Soc, 

 1883). 



96 



o 



Ao.96 /sso 



Verve, fiiers 



Cat 



Fig. 165. 



