Originally compiled by Jennifer Olori Olori, June 2006-August 2008.
IBR
This seems to be the Wallace brachiopod collection in cabinets 263 and 284 in the PRC-122 main room. NOTE: they do not seem to have the IBR prefix on the label, just the number.
Adkins type material (Adkins & Winton 1920, etc.):
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Form 2- 1889 and (No., N.B., and P.)
II) Some of the older labels, many of which show a printed “Form 2- 1889” in the top left corner, also record the “No., N.B., and P.”. Often these are referred to as “Taff notebook numbers” and much of the time the collector is Taff. The abbreviations stand for “Number”, “Note Book”, and “Page”, respectively, and may look like “No. 107__N.B. J__P. 81” followed by the collection date. The first and last are always numbers, but the “N.B.” can be a letter or combination. Occasionally this information also appears on the smaller, square labels which list “locality”, “examine for”, and “collector:”. In this case the information will appear abbreviated and may look like “107-J-81”, for example. DO NOT confuse these with a BEG or other locality numbers. Sometimes it is impossible to tell the difference, but BEG locality numbers almost ALWAYS have a “T” in the middle space and usually do not appear on such old labels. Confusion has already occurred and you will find that rarely, a previous recorder has taken a “Notebook number”, swapped the “J” for a “T”, and entered it as a “locality number”. If the original label is intact this will be obvious. Other signs may be, for example, that this locality number differs from that of other specimens collected from the same place.
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