The files on this CD document holdings of the Ehrenberg Collection of fossil and
recent micro-organisms at the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin.  The primary
files are in the folders ECINDEX and ECDRYI, which contain scanned images of the
hand-written index volumes to the Collection created by EhrenbergÕs daughter
Clara.  Three index volumes are present: ECDRYI, for ÔdriedÕ preparations of
living cells, ECGI, a geographic index to the microfossil preparations and
samples, and ECTI, a taxonomic index to the preparations of microfossils.  Each
page (or, for the dry preps, pair of pages) are scanned as a separate file.  The
letters A, B and C in the folders are merely to subdivide the files into managble
numbers.

The folders ECLETTER and ECDRAW give examples of the letters and drawings in the
collection.  Only one letter (from Darwin) is shown. The drawings show examples
of diatoms, radiolarians, and foraminifera.  Some are drawings of mixed taxa from
a sample, others are single specimens.

ECOTHER contains ASCII text files.  The TOC files are table of contents files to
the Geographic and Taxonomic Index volumes.  The ECTRAY file is a listing of the
labels found on the individual folders or ÔbooksÕ of microfossil preparations,
now stored in a tray system in the collection.  The listing is preliminary and
still needs editing, but may help users nonetheless.

The Ehrenberg Collection is described in more detail in two publications:

Lazarus, D. B. (1998). The Ehrenberg Collection and its curation. In D. M.
Williams & R. Huxley (Eds.), Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg [sic] (1795-1876): The
man and his legacy,  Special Publication no. 1. (pp. 31-48). The Linnean Society,
London.

Lazarus, D. B., and Jahn, R. (1998). Using the Ehrenberg Collection. Diatom
Research, 13(2), 273-291.

This CD should be cited as an Appendix to the Diatom Research publication.

- Dave Lazarus,  Berlin, Feb. 26, 1999.