<div dir="ltr">At the MVZ, we used to have different catalog number series for fluid-preserved specimens and frozen tissues. We moved away from that system to one in which every specimen gets a single catalog number, but the parts can be tracked individually through our database system Arctos. That works much better for us because it is easy to relate each part to the specimen and its associated metadata (taxonomy, geography, collecting event, etc.). It took time for use to recatalog the fluids and tissues but it was worth it. This system is used for birds, mammals, and amphibians/reptiles.<div><br></div><div>The only exception is that we maintain a different catalog series for our egg/nest specimens. Thus, if we have an egg/nest associated with a skin in the collection, those get different catalog numbers that are related to each other.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Callomon,Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu" target="_blank">prc44@drexel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">In some collections, individual components of a lot that are stored in a particular medium (for example: the empty dry shell, frozen tissue snip and alcohol-preserved body from the same snail or the dry skin and fluid-preserved guts of
a single bird) each get different catalog numbers. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The question: All other things being equal, is it better collections management practice for all parts of a single lot to have the same catalog number (perhaps with different states of preservation indicated separately or as prefixes/suffixes)?
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<p class="MsoNormal">A “lot” is defined as all specimens collected at the same time in the same place. This can be a single bird or a hundred pond snails.
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<p class="MsoNormal">How do you handle this in your collection?<u></u><u></u></p>
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