Fungi collection

It was with pleasure that I spent an afternoon assisting Jessica to rationalise part of the fungi collection, for which she is responsible.  One of my tasks was to check fungi catalogued samples off a printed database sent from Lincoln.  It was interesting to see the change in the way information was recorded on the archive envelopes which hold the specimens: from rounded economical pen strokes, to extravagant flourished script, to the plink plink typeset of a portable Remmington, to the no-nonsense ballpoint and finally the crisp typeset of today.  It was like observing the passage of decades of time in a single afternoon.