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WHENEVER a collection has been catalogued anew, and all the numbers are in the museum order of the specimens, the placing of additions at the end, without any sequence but that of acquisition, always seems a melancholy collapse of the order just established. So strongly is this felt that some curators even enter additions with the same numbers as similar specimens, distinguished by letters, as 3247a; but, as formerly in the British Museum, this system breaks down when such additions far outnumber the original series, and we reach figures like 3247fy. At the same time this is an approach to an entirely different and logical system of cataloguing, which ought to be considered. Another stage of arrangement has been by appropriating so many thousand numbers to each branch, so that the articles of one class may have contiguous numbers.
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PETRIE, W. Classified Cataloguing. Nature 40, 392 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040392a0
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