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