The last fossils that Miss Rathbun named for S. S. Berry were not 
packed properly (the job was done in Geology) and when the package reached 
him the vials were all broken and the specimens all mixed up so he didn’t 
know what labels went with what specimens. He has sent them back for re- 
identification, Mr. Bryant still has them upstairs. He’s going to talk to 
the Geology people about the packing and then they will come down to Miss 
Rathbun. When he told me about it, I said, "Oh, that’s bad." He said, "Yes 
I know. Well, I’ll just hold on to them for a while." 
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I am trying to impress on Mr. Shoemaker and Mr. Maloney that no 
specimens without complete labels, including acc. numbers, should be given 
Miss Rathbun. She gets things so mixed up and unless labels are full and 
complete she oughtn’t to be bothered. I don’t think I made a bit of impres- 
sion on the men, however. Mr. Maloney gave her a large lot of crabs collected 
by Kellers in the Philippines. The bottles contained only Kellers’ labels 
giving "Ilo Ilo" and the date. Mr. S fe ggg k Shoemaker had not put accession 
numbers in them, and she was trying to assign them to Albatross collections. 
She came to me and asked when the Albatross was in the Philippines. I took 
one look at the specimens and recognized Kellers’ writing on the labels, fortu- 
nately. I told Mr. Shoemaker about it and told him that it is very necessary 
for him to put numbers in every bottle of specimens. He said something like 
"How much time do thihk I have for things like that?" He seems utterly 
uninterested in keeping records straight. I know one thing, we are going to 
have more and more mix-ups unless specimens are properly labeled, because 
it grows harder every day for Miss Rathbun to keep such things straight. 
1*11 send this letter to San Juan air mail and hope that you get it. 
Sincerely, 
