Expansion of Storage Facility, AMNH Fish Collection

美国自然博物馆鱼类收藏 历史是北美最大的历史之一， 超过200，000个样本批次，超过一百万个个体 标本和1200多个模式标本。 加雷思纳尔逊医生， 馆长的收藏，建议扩大 通过将海洋鱼类幼体从 墨西哥湾和美国海岸外的大西洋。 博士 纳尔逊还计划完成精神的转换 从异丙醇到乙醇的收集流体，确保更好地 保存组织和着色模式。 自然历史博物馆的系统收藏是 生物学家用来分析结果的主要数据资源 进化论 生态学家、地理学家和进化学家 系统主义者完全依赖于这些知识库， 生物多样性为研究的基本材料。 适当 这些收藏品的管理和稳定增长是必不可少的， 对生物多样性和进化的长期研究。

The Fish Collection of the American Museum of Natural History is one of the largest in North America, comprising more than 200,000 specimen lots, more than a million individual specimens, and more than 1200 type specimens. Dr. Gareth Nelson, Curator of the collection, proposes an expansion of the collection through incorporation of marine larval fishes from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. coast. Dr. Nelson also plans to complete the conversion of the spirit collection fluids from isopropanol to ethanol, assuring better preservation of tissue and coloration patterns. Systematic collections in natural history museums are the primary data resources with which biologists analyze the results of evolution. Ecologists, biogeographers, and evolutionary systematists are completely dependent on these repositories of biological diversity for the basic materials for study. Proper curation and steady growth of these collections are essential for the long-term study of biodiversity and evolution.