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invention. This example is still understandable! More difficult is when single curators used different code systems, usually based on latin terms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Från:</b> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> <b>
För </b>Martin Sluk<br>
<b>Skickat:</b> den 27 juni 2018 21:23<br>
<b>Till:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Ämne:</b> [Nhcoll-l] sex indication in butterfly collection<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In looking at the card catalogue of a butterfly collection we’re noticing a use of the Mars and Venus symbols I’ve not seen before. Most specimens have the sex symbols written twice, one “upside-down” and one “right-side-up”.
Sometimes this will be a normally oriented Venus followed by an upside-down one, or an upside-down Venus followed by a right side up mars etc. Furthermore there are some specimens with the sex left blank and some with the sex indicated by a single unambiguous
symbol.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m wondering if perhaps this is a common way to indicate something in the invertebrate world that I’m just not familiar with. This data is from the late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries. Thanks for
any leads you can give us. We’re a small and entomologist-less staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Martin Sluk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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