[Nhcoll-l] Numbers on specimens

[Liath Appleton]

As most of you know, specimens often have their old numbers written
somewhere directly on the surface of the object. In our collections we do
not write numbers on the specimens, primarily because the previous curator
didn't want to police the handwriting skills of her volunteers. That makes
sense, but I think that we really should have the numbers on there somehow.
Some people have suggested printing out the numbers and using some type of
glue to adhere the numbers to the specimens. I've seen this done before,
but I've also seen many of those labels falling off over time. When I
managed mollusk collections, writing directly on the shell surface was
usually easy to do, but for my current collections that consist primarily
of fossils, rocks and minerals, writing on the surface can be tricky. For
those of you who do apply numbers to specimens, what are your thoughts on
the subject?
Thanks ---Liath


Liath Appleton
Collections Manager
Non-Vertebrate Paleontology Lab
University of Texas at Austin
Bldg PRC122 - campus mail code R8500
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78758

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