, an 0babe Canty none na ne ae hae sat . Dr. R. S. Cowan " se a . ‘ . August 9, 1267 - " . . ° . ane eee 1 1 staff and on our budget. The exponce in farsa alata will be cnormouas we can anticipate reesiving enough separate Lots to £L1LL between | 20,000 and 30,0G0 jars, far in oxcess of cur cursent stock of jaro.” ' Our standard Fs oz, jar now coats $0,55 apisca. - : et oO Processing of tha uncataloged, ident tfted watertata 1 no on hand, — “ea, 8,000+ specimens, will represent et lense one wan-year of work _ (the specimens represont 2,099 lots shipped, probably 3,500+ lots SY after identification; these are estinates). Tre outstanding 20,003 lots Kepresent 8-10 maneyears of effort toSataloge. , .- Under our- present’ cataloging system, informtton on dictribution .Cannot be abstractad from the cataloged collection without searching the collection by hand. It would be a step Cerward if we could obtain ( support to canvert existing records on the Paciffe invartebratas into: -a format retrievable by automatic methods. hie would fora an excellent’ “. adjunet to, the current data-processing atudySupported by the (Office tA ' bh teterare ae AE sete lee te Poy sive dAIHDSY SOQ we we ee ee egyce temeey ytte te o +t ZlTe OTT ° Soy ae eT . ‘ ’ : et eo “3 oo