Systematics Collections Improvement, New York Botanical Garden Herbarium

纽约植物园，拥有超过500万株植物 标本，是植物学研究的重要资源， 美国和国际上，提供广泛的服务，以国家和 国际社会的学者和学生。 花园是 坚定致力于其收藏和研究活动， 长期计划扩展到一个新的翼， 并开始将大量的库存电脑化。 这 将使花园能够保持其巨大的 贷款/游客计划，并提供扩展能力，直到 新大楼于一九九六年落成。 此外，这种支持将 允许迄今为止未被研究和未充分利用的部分收藏-- 地衣和真菌-被鉴定、管理和用于 植物学研究和教育。

The New York Botanical Garden, with over 5 million plant specimens, is an essential resource for botanical research in the U.S. and internationally, providing vast service to national and international community of scholars and students. The garden is strongly committed to its collections and research activities, as indicated by the long range plan to expand into a new wing in 1996 and to begin computerization of the vast holdings. This grant will enable the Garden to maintain its enormous loan/visitor program and to provide expansion capabilities until the new building is completed in 1996. Also this support will allow hitherto unstudied and underused parts of the collection-- lichens and fungi--to be identified, curated and used in the botanical research and education.