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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack"></a>Andy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Depends what you mean by accession numbers. In collections terminology the term accession usually refers to the legal acquisition of material into a collection to which an accession number is given. This is usually for a batch of material
and is in a 1:M relationship to catalog numbers that are assigned to individual objects. I presume in this context you are referring to catalog numbers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If so, the only reason I can think of keeping historic catalog numbers is if they have been published on or referenced in literature of Genbank, in which case you may want to keep them to maintain that connection – extended specimen concept.
However, moving forward with new specimens, you barcode number could become your catalog number thus negating any need for a separate number – as long as your barcode is human readable that is.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of "Miller, Andrew Nicholas" <amiller7@illinois.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 9:06 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu" <nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now that we are barcoding our herbarium specimens, we are thinking about dropping our historical method of assigning internal accession numbers. Is there any reason to keep both numbers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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