Describing Specimens (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This handbook is designed to outline procedures for processing specimens brought into this laboratory. It is based upon more than a dozen years of experience with these specimens and is intended as a guide for processing of a maximum quantity of items within a minimum of time. It is specifically intended to provide the processors in this laboratory with a written guide to their duties and with written instructions as to how to perform each of the many specialized tasks that arise in processing...