Curation of Endangered Mollusk Collections at the Florida State Museum

佛罗里达州立博物馆最近获得了两个重要的近代软体动物收藏：托马斯·麦金蒂收藏和比尔·马尔比收藏。两者都包含大量稀有或来自环境受干扰地区的标本，这些地区受到进一步生物退化的威胁。这些藏品有来自美国和世界各地许多热带地区的大量标本，涵盖了从海洋到淡水到陆地的所有栖息地。此外，它们还包含许多过去四十年来科学界无法获得的模式标本。该计划将资助两个新藏品的管理，并将它们纳入博物馆的软体动物收藏，从而使研究人员，学生和其他感兴趣的人可以使用这些标本。将遵循当代策展标准，有关标本的数据将输入博物馆的电子编目系统。新获得的标本是对美国研究和教育资源的重要补充。

The Florida State Museum has recently acquired two important collections of Recent mollusks: the Thomas McGinty Collection and the Beal-Maltbie Collection. Both contain numerous sets of specimens that are rare or come from environmentally disturbed areas which are threatened with further biological deterioration. The collections have strong representation of specimens from the United States and many tropical regions around the world and encompass all habitats from marine to freshwater to land. In addition, they contain many type specimens that have been unavailable to science for the last forty years. This project will fund the curation of the two new collections and their incorporation into the mollusk collection of the Museum, thus making the specimens available to researchers, students and other interested persons. Contemporary curatorial standards will be followed, and data about the specimens will be entered into the museum's electronic cataloguing system. The newly acquired specimens are an important addition to the research and educational resources of the United States.