My favorite odd-ball in the Crustacea collection here at the Canadian
Museum of Nature is in with the dried specimens.  Our dry Crustacea are
mostly crabs and barnacles, many of them historic specimens collected at
the turn of the century.  In amongst these fragile treasures is a brown
paper bag filled with empty crab shells, solemnly annotated as to their
origin and date of collection (sometime in the sixties, I can't quite
remember offhand).  The whole mess is obviously the result of a beach lunch
during a collecting trip!  No, I haven't catalogued it yet, but I've been
planning whether to describe them as *partial* specimens, or previously
tested (destructive analysis?).

Judith C. Price