Arranging and Cataloging Mineral Collections - Part 2

摘要

The evolution of collection documentation has progressed from journal entries to card files to computer databases, and all provide some organizational structure to large or otherwise unmanageable accumulations. Using specimens from our inventory to illustrate, there are many examples of how the labeling and numbering of samples was accomplished by prior owners, and figures 1 through 4 present adequate examples. Suffice to say that cataloging of a permanent collection can be a relaxing and worthwhile activity, and one that can be undertaken at regular intervals whether the collection (or owner!) is otherwise dormant or even immersed in the flood of acquisition.