Rehousing an Essential Land Snail Collection Resource

重新安置重要的蜗牛收集资源

• 批准号: 9105023
• 负责人: Robert Cowie
• 金额: $ 49.34万
• 依托单位: Bernice P Bishop Museum
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-15 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9105023&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rehousing; Essential; Land; Snail; Collection

This project will allow Bishop Museum in Honolulu to conserve and rehouse its mollusk collection in new metal storage cabinets. This collection (6 million specimens in 240,000 lots, including 900 holotypes and 24,000 other types) is dominated by Pacific land snails, and ranks as the ninth largest mollusk collection in the U.S. Two-thirds of the land snail specimens have associated alcohol-preserved soft parts in the collection. The project follows from a 1987 conservator's report that recommended 1) replacing all land snail specimen trays with acid- free unit trays and/or polystyrene boxes, 2) replacing all wooden cabinets and drawers with metal fixtures, and 3) removing all cardboard boxes in and around the storage area. Temperature and humidity fluctuations have been controlled by the Bishop by installing several window air conditioning units. Rehousing of this collection will not only conserve this international research resource, but will make it much more accessible for education and research in the biology of mollusks.

该项目将使檀香山的主教博物馆 保护和重新安置在新的金属存储的软体动物收集 橱柜 这个集合（600万标本，240，000批次， 包括900个正模标本和24，000个其他类型）， 太平洋陆地蜗牛，是第九大软体动物 美国三分之二的陆生蜗牛标本 在收藏品中有相关的酒精保存的柔软部分。 该项目遵循1987年保护员的报告， 建议1）将所有陆生蜗牛标本盘更换为酸- 免费的单元托盘和/或聚苯乙烯盒，2）更换所有木制 橱柜和抽屉与金属固定装置，和3）删除所有 仓库里和周围的纸箱 温度和 湿度波动已经被主教控制， 安装几个窗口空调机组。 重新安置 这一系列不仅将保护这一国际 研究资源，但将使它更容易获得 软体动物生物学的教育和研究。