Permanency of CDs

[Ron at]

Charles Hussey

> Of course there are plenty of organisms that will attack paper (including
> specimen labels!)
>
> Charles Hussey,

Well, now we have hit a nail on the head. As we all know, a specimen with
data is usually worthless. Taxonomy is not about texts but taxa. How
frustrating it has been to all of us to actually find old specimens - and
the labels are now very faded to blank.
Ron