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card кар until all the specimens in it are worked out and find 
manent resting places either in the exhibition, study, or duplicate 
series. Варе in these cases, lot or group numbers do not appear to 
have anything to recommend — and as far as possible each speci- 
men is given a number of its own 
starting a new "em of registration in a Museum, i old 
It was decided in our case to date them with the year of registration, 
adding the date of acquisition, when known, on the right-hand corner, 
and in the case of accessions to keep a list of the numbers for use in 
new; =: er was — кен of at the time of ordering the cards, 
ing i t-of-the-way place, was impossible to do 
ealissquiintly.: without a 7 of probably six months or more. 
Should a specimen be destroyed, and such things will happen, even 
in the best-regulated Museums, its card in the catalogue may either 
er to E 
The his tory often of u 1 ; serving. 
Should this department trüfortunstely get me it must be sub-divided 
y e cards i so that particular cards can be found without 
undue loss of time 
Loan collections can be treated by м aside a drawer of the 
period cabinet. s them. A record can here be kept of specimens 
ih 
sa 
venient to put them on the main register. For this pu apose the 
cheaper qualities of cards are good enough, and a coloured one could 
be used with advantage. 
In practice thin, best quality, white cards have been used for the 
ordinary entries; thick, best quality, white cards for the guides 
salmon pink card 
н wilt be apparent that by this ваай it is always possible to re- 
arrange a case or gallery, or to insert or remove specimens anywhere 
in the collection. A whole line is given to * Place in Museum” on 
the cards, so it is easy to scratch out a case-number and write in a 
new one, whenever a change is necessary. Any system which does 
almost every genus and species included in it. Until a stop i is um to 
this pernicious habit of the sy stematists (by, say, 1 теа a fine of 
10/- in the case of a species and 20/- in the case of a genus, the fines 
to go to a benevolent fund for the benefit of Vene Hii dee ayed 
Museum officials) we must allow for a constant change of classifica- 
tion of nearly the whole of the contents of a Museum. 
