Compact Storage Equipment, Herbarium of Brigham Young University

Brigham Young标本馆有大约350,000个标本，主要来自犹他州。这个植物标本馆的藏品可能是世界上该地区植物的最好代表。该标本被广泛用于制作《山间植物志》和《犹他州植物志》，该标本馆是我们了解落基山脉植物区系向东与大盆地向西过渡的主要资源。对美国西部生物地理学的研究从这些收藏中受益匪浅。过去几十年来，标本馆馆长斯坦利·威尔什博士一直对藏品的稳定增长负责，他现在提议安装一个新的存储系统，用于可移动的“计算机”标本箱。这一改进将支持藏品多年的持续增长。自然历史收藏品，如杨百翰植物标本馆，是了解地球生物多样性的宝贵资源。它们对许多科学领域的研究都是不可或缺的，包括但不限于系统和进化生物学、生态学、生物地理学和保护。这些收藏品的持续支持和改进将为未来几代调查人员提供获取关键研究资源的途径。

The Brigham Young Herbarium contains approximately 350,000 specimens, primarily from the state of Utah. The holdings of this herbarium probably constitute the world's best representation of the plants of this area. This collection has been used extensively for preparation of the Intermountain Flora and the Flora of Utah, and this herbarium is the primary resource for our understanding of the transition between the floras of the Rocky Mountains to the east and the Great Basin to the West. Research on the biogeography of the American West benefits greatly from this collection. Dr. Stanley Welsh, Curator of the Herbarium, has been responsible for the collection's steady growth over the past decades, and he now proposes to install a new storage system of movable "compatorized" herbarium cases. This improvement will support many years of continued growth of the collection. Natural history collections such as the Brigham Young Herbarium constitute the a valuable resource for understanding the diversity of life on earth. They are indispensable to research in many fields of science, including but not limited to systematic and evolutionary biology, ecology, biogeography, and conservation. The continued support and improvement of these collections will provide future generations of investigators with access to critical research resources.