[Nhcoll-l] Multiple numbers

[Callomon,Paul]

Colleagues:

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.
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)?
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.

How do you handle this in your collection?

Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
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