Curatorial and Facilities Support for the Entomological Collection

伯尼采·毕晓普博物馆的昆虫收藏 夏威夷拥有世界上最完整的 环太平洋 它包含超过1300万个标本， 其中超过13,000个是模式标本。 该集合 规模仅次于史密森学会和 美国自然历史博物馆。 Scott米勒博士，主席 格雷西特昆虫学研究中心的研究员， 继续改进收集工作，包括安装 高密度存储设施，支持访问 专家计划，建立一个计算机化的库存， 收集和管理大量等待分类的藏品 和标签。 拟议的策展工作将增加 这一收集的可用性，以研究人员从周围的 世界 像这样的博物馆藏品构成了 研究地球生物多样性的方法。 适当 这些自然历史收藏品的管理和计算机化 将为控制这一现象的因素提供新的见解 多样性

The Insect Collection in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Hawaii contains the world's most complete representation from the Pacific Rim. It contains more than 13 million specimens, of which more than 13,000 are type specimens. The collection is surpassed in size only by the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Scott Miller, Chairman of the Gressitt Center for Research in Entomology, proposes continued improvement to the collection, including installation of high-density storage facilities, support for a visiting specialist program, creation of a computerized inventory of the collection, and curation of extensive holdings that await sorting and labelling. The proposed curatorial effort will increase the availability of this collection to investigators from around the world. Museum collections such as this one comprise the primary means of studying the earth's biological diversity. Proper curation and computerization of such natural history collections will offer new insight into the factors that control this diversity.