<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Entertainingly, this sparked a local discussion at Oregon State about whether this was the mark of the “Weasel Illuminati.”</div><div><br></div><div>One of my colleagues suggested that it would make a good tattoo . . . . </div><div><br></div><div>— Brian</div><div><br></div><div><div>-- </div><div>Brian Sidlauskas</div><div>Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes</div><div>Department of Fisheries and Wildlife</div><div>104 Nash Hall</div><div>Oregon State University</div><div>Corvallis, OR 97331-3803</div><div><br></div><div>Voice: 541-737-6789</div><div>Fax: 541-737-3590</div><div>Email: brian.sidlauskas@oregonstate.edu</div><div>Web: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__oregonstate.edu_-7Esidlausb&d=AwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vGnMAhy0jrKRrjBXtYuT-1Tx9qp4kpx1ilkJn8aW7aY&s=1f0d7eV-Bgy4mI6uEuHovkSGo9vlhnO17A9M4Ln1gA0&e=">http://oregonstate.edu/~sidlausb</a>/</div><div>Collection: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ichthyology.oregonstate.edu&d=AwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vGnMAhy0jrKRrjBXtYuT-1Tx9qp4kpx1ilkJn8aW7aY&s=P5GDemmm8gQen2HCB57a62NL1OQQQeUELWwM0QDzmxs&e=">http://ichthyology.oregonstate.edu</a>/</div><div>Facebook: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_brian.sidlauskas&d=AwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vGnMAhy0jrKRrjBXtYuT-1Tx9qp4kpx1ilkJn8aW7aY&s=xpoODX9uVI9Z67wlJ1Ayyp-6HSN8impXYBRz7WGnO-s&e=">https://www.facebook.com/brian.sidlauskas</a></div><div>Twitter: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_BrianSidlauskas&d=AwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vGnMAhy0jrKRrjBXtYuT-1Tx9qp4kpx1ilkJn8aW7aY&s=tgRP0S_vm_u3B6pMyM3wTGzraLSD-wxdaZxW_2LSfAM&e=">https://twitter.com/BrianSidlauskas</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> <<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>> on behalf of Simon Moore <<a href="mailto:couteaufin@btinternet.com">couteaufin@btinternet.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 3:06 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Andrew Charles Bentley <<a href="mailto:abentley@ku.edu">abentley@ku.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Nhcoll-l] help deciphering unknown symbol for mammal specimen<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yes, I am certain that is how i have seen it used but I wasn’t so sure until Andy's opinion concurred.<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">With all good wishes, Simon.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR<br>Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian,<br><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.natural-2Dhistory-2Dconservation.com&d=AwMF-g&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=tMUBDneZeUrNhs1xBX7iL8Ulrvcfo2tCqYXi-PF3EOk&s=ck0sRdcpdNuon897G2kBlHWWR4urUlf3UcZ4km7ozWg&e=">www.natural-history-conservation.com</a> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><br><br></div></div></div></div><br><div><div>On 28 Jul 2015, at 22:09, Bentley, Andrew Charles <<a href="mailto:abentley@ku.edu">abentley@ku.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dawn<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The “Zero over Infinity” symbol is most often associated with an indeterminate status so I can only assume that someone used this to classify something about the specimen indeterminate – its location, its disposition, its size. Maybe you can decipher what from the context of the other text.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Andy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> A : A : A :<br> }<(((_°>.,.,.,.}<(((_°>.,.,.,.}<)))_°><br> V V V<br>Andy Bentley<br>Ichthyology Collection Manager<br>University of Kansas<br>Biodiversity Institute<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dyche Hall<br>1345 Jayhawk Boulevard<br>Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561<br>USA<br><br>Tel: (785) 864-3863<br>Fax: (785) 864-5335<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:abentley@ku.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">abentley@ku.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu_&d=AwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=tmoxu7LXZPTjGfFLZD74RlpUY39ZNu7gaxnIkQCuGs8&s=FB-Iz5oxtQGU87aCIb60H4C0KFq-x3pgsOBAqlc8Uwg&e=" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">SPNHC President<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.spnhc.org_&d=AwMFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=tmoxu7LXZPTjGfFLZD74RlpUY39ZNu7gaxnIkQCuGs8&s=73TqSMIh6abU96xE-DDrskw5oeSVqT9gIp3uCklI0hA&e=" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.spnhc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> : : <br> A : A : A :<br> }<(((_°>.,.,.,.}<(((_°>.,.,.,.}<)))_°><br> V V V</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>