Curation of Three Large Molluscan Collections

三个大型软体动物收藏品的策展

• 批准号: 8817726
• 负责人: Terrence Gosliner
• 金额: $ 16万
• 依托单位: California Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-02-15 至 1993-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8817726&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Curation; Three; Large; Molluscan; Collections

As part of the ongoing rehousing and improvement of its invertebrate collections, the California Academy of Sciences seeks to integrate three large molluscan collections it has recently acquired. The new collections include major holdings of chitons and sea slugs. In addition, adjunct materials such as color transparencies, microscope slides, and publications were donated with the collections, increasing their value to researchers. Identifications of the donated specimens will be made by visiting experts partially supported by the project. The Academy will also begin to re-curate its previous collections of these two groups that are preserved in liquid; such wet specimens contain the soft body parts lost in traditional dry mollusc preparations and thus are extremely useful. Finally, computerization of collection data for the mollusks, begun in a previous award, will continue.

作为正在进行的无脊椎动物收藏重新安置和改进的一部分，加州科学院寻求整合它最近获得的三个大型软体动物收藏。新的收藏品包括大量的石鳖和海参。此外，还随藏品一起捐赠了彩色透明胶片、显微镜幻灯片和出版物等辅助材料，增加了它们对研究人员的价值。捐赠标本的鉴定将由部分得到该项目支持的访问专家进行。学院还将开始重新整理之前保存在液体中的这两组标本；这种湿标本包含在传统干燥软体动物制剂中丢失的柔软身体部分，因此非常有用。最后，上一个奖项开始的软体动物收集数据的计算机化工作将继续进行。