Note re Accn. 7886 + Accn. 8139. Catalogue of Specimens Actually Received from Tom Larson Southern Africa subsequent to #1563 carry a dual series of numbers such as "12" on one side of label & "1575" on the other. Projected backwards this means that 1 = 1564 (the assumed starting point for Accn. 8139) 2 = 1565, etc. 4. By association with dates on labels it was noted (just as an example) that some of the specimens catalogue numbers higher than 1564 contained collection dates considerably or significantly earlier than some of the specimens we had already received with catalogue #s under T.L. 1563. Hence, by assumption, Larson kept out a representative series of specimens while working for the U.C. African Exped. (which incidentally was presumably his privilege) and gave them a separate temporary series of numbers starting with #1, probably with the intent of either keeping a collection of his own or selling them privately to some other museum. At any rate he apparently (even obviously) did not enter them in his regular catalogue at the time they were collected. Then as soon as M.V.Z. began buying specimens from him Larson catalogued his private specimens starting with (1) 1564, (2) 1565, (3) 1566, etc. Thus, many such combined #s appeared on specimens M.V.Z. received from him and all of which are entered in our separate Accn. #8139. J Kleveraid.