Facilities Support for the Plant Resources Center, University of Texas at Austin

德克萨斯大学植物资源中心（PRC）包括德克萨斯大学植物标本室和C.L. Lundell的大部分植物标本室。植物资源中心也是许多研究项目的所在地，这些项目涉及植物区系的生产和各种植物群的专题处理。在过去的15年里，植物资源中心的标本数量从30万增加到95万。此外，中华人民共和国还与德克萨斯大学植物系合作，开展了广泛的植物系统学家培训计划。在接下来的三年里，PRC将收到Lundell收藏的剩余部分，大约65,000个标本，包括重要的类型材料。除了伦德尔的材料本身，中国将收到，在接下来的几年里，超过75,000标本欠伦德尔标本馆交换（这些现在将来到中国）。由于新材料的涌入，中华人民共和国要求增加植物标本馆人员、存放新材料的箱子和保存记录的计算机设备，并开始登记目前存放在中华人民共和国的类型材料。与此同时，Lundell的材料被纳入PRC，仍然保存在生物实验室的下层植物和草将被转移到主楼，从而自1975年以来首次加入整个收藏。德克萨斯大学（University of Texas）已向中国承诺再提供5000平方英尺的校舍。为新材料提供了1英尺的空间。中华人民共和国与伦德尔大学植物标本馆的合并将使德克萨斯-伦德尔大学植物标本馆在标本数量方面跻身全国十大标本馆之列，并确保中华人民共和国和德克萨斯大学植物学系继续成为进化和系统生物学的领先研究和教学机构。

The Plant Resources Center (PRC) of the University of Texas includes the University of Texas Herbarium and most of the herbarium of C.L. Lundell. The Plant Resources Center is also the site of a number of research programs that involve the production of floras and monographic treatments of a wide range of plant groups. Over the last 15 years, the number of specimens in the Plant Resources Center has increased from 300,000 to 950,000. Moreover, the PRC, in conjunction with the Botany Department of the University of Texas carries out an extensive program for the training of plant systematists. During the next three years, the PRC will receive the remainder of the Lundell collection, about 65,000 specimens, including important type material. In addition to the Lundell material itself, the PRC will receive, during the next several years, over 75,000 specimens owed the Lundell Herbarium in exchange (these will now come to the PRC). Because of the influx of new material, the PRC has requested additional herbarium personnel, cases to house new material, and computer equipment for keeping records and for the initiation of a register of type material now housed in the PRC. At the same time the Lundell material is being incorporated into the PRC, the lower plants and grasses, still housed in the Biological Laboratories will be moved to the Main Building, thereby joining the entire collection for the first time since 1975. The University of Texas has promised the PRC an additional 5,000 sq. ft. of space for the new material. The unification of the PRC and the acquisition of the Lundell material will place the combined Texas-Lundell Herbarium in the top ten herbaria in the country in terms of specimens, and assure that the PRC and the Department of Botany of The University of Texas continue to be a leading research and teaching institution of evolutionary and systematic biology.