>To: the Editor
>Geological Curators Group Journal
>
>Dear Sir
>
>I wonder if Curators Group members can help me?
>
>I have a collection of Foote minerals in a small 4-drawer wooden
>cabinet: it is obviously one of the standard Foote "sets". The
>labels are probably late 19th century. Some of the specimens are
>quite good, but it is obvious that in the past some liberties have
>been taken with them and I have quite a few where the mineral is
>definitely not in the correct box or not in a box at all, so I
>really need to do some serious checking before I put them into the
>main collection.
>
>As you probably know, Foote puts a Dana number on each label, but
>there is a completely different tiny number on the specimen (which
>does not appear on the label at all!). I have obtained a copy of
>relevant parts of the 1897 catalogue which appears to be right for
>the date of the labels, but this still does not list the numbers
>actually on the specimens, (which must be Foote's own catalogue of
>the specimens from various localities).
>
>What I probably need is help from someone with a similar collection
>which has been curated and has a record of the numbers actually on
>the specimens as well as all the other details: then I can try to
>correlate this with my own list.
>
>Any ideas? I'm happy to pay for copying etc. or exchange for
>specimens of W.A. material if people prefer. Part of the problem is
>that I am in Perth, Australia, so I can't take a trip round UK
>museums to check this out.
>
>Jenny
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>School of Earth & Geographical Sciences
>University of Western Australia, M004
>35 Stirling Highway, CRAWLEY WA 6009
>Tel: 08 6488 2681 Fax: 08 6488 1037
>www.earthmuseum.segs.uwa.edu.au
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Dr Patrick N. Wyse Jackson
Department of Geology
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland
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