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painting or writing a number on it. If it is to go into an exhibition 
or store case, the number of that case is written on the cards under 
the heading * Place in eum." Опе card is then filed in the 
register, in the order of its accession number, and the other card is 
One or more drawers of the catalogue cabinet are given to each 
gallery. The drawers, in this particular instance, hold 3,000 cards, 
and have two brass card-holders in front to take labels indicating the 
e accession numbers are used with a date, thus:—1,420-04. or 
1,343-05, a fresh number being started each year. The actual date of 
receipt is written on the right-hand upper corner of the card. In the 
register guides at each hundred are use 
and the odd and even numbers are written on the left and right-hand 
cards 
is only necessary when a change of year takes place. Let it be 
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fifties alternately in the central half, with a distance equal to the 
thickness of two hundred cards between each guide. 
In the case of a specimen or group of specimens from one source, 
which have to be examined and classified, or mounted, or possibly 
even sent away for identification, salmon-coloured cards are used, an 
one card j i 
is in the register and the other in a drawer of the 
catalogue cabinet set apart for the laborato: When the specimen is 
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. and if the accession number was, say, 360-05, to give them decimal 
| sombere thus ;—54 °-05, 229-05, ete. As each specimen of a group or 
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