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Mr. Edwin Herman joined the Museum staff as a museum aid and has made himself very useful. He and Mr. Roberts have teamed up to attack problems of attic storage. Herman has relabeled many of the drawers in the attic so that the labels give full details of the drawer contents. He has helped in the rearrangement of the gastropod and ostracod collections and has helped in the sorting of field material. He is careful in his work and neat in the arrangements of the collections.

Mr. James L. Connors' work as a cataloger and part time aid has made a great impress on our problems. He is now revising the type collection of trilobites, which has been a difficult one to use because some of the specimens are filed under old names while others have been put away under the most recent generic term. This has caused great confusion; consequently, the collection is being revised to an alphabetical arrangement based on the name under which the specimen was published. Another problem that has deviled the users of this collection is the fact that a large number of non-type specimens have been placed in the type collection. These are being weeded out. When completed the collection will consist wholly of type material. The revision of the trilobite type collection was started by Keith Norlin, a summer intern, but the summer months were too short and the collection too large for him to get beyond a few letters.