I think this is enormously helpful: in my first museum job I constantly
referred to the "Ramdom Notes to my Successor" left by David Spalding
(well known later to many Canadian professionals) throughout my 4 years
there - and left my own version when I moved on.

Another suggestion is to ensure that samples of handwriting of all kinds
- specimen labels, notes etc. - are archived for the benefit of future
curators, registrars and researchers wanting to identify such material in
the future - though I suppose that eventually technology will finally take
away that (valuable) source of informqtion in relwtion to historic
collections!

Patrick Boylan