Cataloging and Storage of the Stanford-Meyer Osteopathology Collection

圣地亚哥人类博物馆有一批杰出的人类骨学材料收藏，由斯坦福大学的Arthur W.Meyer博士在本世纪上半叶收集的3000多个标本组成。这些收藏，连同Hrdlicka古病理学收藏，构成了一个重要的人类学资源，可以用来更好地了解没有抗生素的社会中的人类骨骼病理。馆藏的规模、范围和文献使其成为一种独特的、不可替代的研究和参考馆藏。几年前，博物馆成功地保存和升级了赫德利卡的藏品，从而在实物人类学的藏品管理方面建立了良好的记录。在这个项目期间，他们将改进斯坦福标本的文件记录。虽然这些藏品一直是许多学术研究的基础，但这种使用本身就损坏了这些物品。藏书管理方面的改进将使更广泛的学术界能够安全地获取它们。

The San Diego Museum of Man has an outstanding collection of human osteological materials consisting of over 3,000 specimens collected during the first half of this century by Dr. Arthur W. Meyer of Stanford University. These collections, along with the Hrdlicka paleopathology collection, form an important anthropological resource that can be used to better understand human bone pathologies in societies without antibiotics. The size, scope, and documentation of the collection make it a unique and irreplaceable research and reference collection. The museum successfully conserved and upgraded the Hrdlicka collection several years ago, thereby establishing themselves with an excellent record in collections management in physical anthropology. During this project they will improve the documentation of the specimens in the Stanford.Meyer collection and upgrade storage. While these collections have been the basis for much scholarly research, this use itself has damaged the objects. The improvements in collections management will make them safely accessible to an even wider scholarly community.