Reorganization of the Collections of the Paleontological Research Institute

9407364古生物研究所和康奈尔大学的无脊椎动物化石和现代软体动物合计收藏了近200万个标本，其中包括美国第五大无脊椎动物化石类型和图形标本，是古生物学和系统学研究和教育的主要潜在资源。然而，潜在用户几乎完全无法访问这些收藏。1992年9月，PRI开始了一项翻新工作人员和设施的计划，其中包括对其藏品进行重组和初步清点。因此，这些藏品现在可以供工作人员和参观者使用。然而，他们仍然没有得到适当的住房和管理。CU收集的最近的软体动物得到了相当好的策划和清点，但没有适当地放置在偏僻的位置。CU的无脊椎动物化石收藏管理不善，基本上是单一陈列的，存放在不完善的设施中，在偏僻的地方没有任何策展人员。资金将用于支持PRI和CU无脊椎动物化石和新近软体动物收藏的全面重组的第一阶段，涉及搬迁CU设施以及大约一半的现有PRI收藏。这将使这些重要的收藏品得到适当的管理和照顾，使研究和教育界能够充分利用它们，并为最终的计算机化做好准备。

9407364 Allmon The combined collections of invertebrate fossils and Recent mollusks of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and Cornell University (CU) contain almost two million specimens, including the fifth largest collection of invertebrate fossil type and figured specimens in the United States, and constitute a major potential resource for research and education in paleontology and systematics. These collections, however, have been almost completely inaccessible to potential users. In September 1992, PRI embarked on a program of renovation of staff and facilities that included reorganization and preliminary inventory of its collections. As result, these collections are now usable by staff and visitors. Yet they are still inadequately housed and curated. The CU collection of Recent mollusks is fairly well curated and inventoried, but inadequately housed in an out-of -the-way location. The CU collection of invertebrate fossils is poorly curated, largely univentoried, and housed in inadequate facilities without any curatorial staff in an out-of-the-way location. Funds will be used to support the first phase of a complete reorganization of the PRI and CU collections of invertebrate fossils and Recent mollusks, involving moving the CU facilities, together with approximately half of the existing PRI collections. This will allow these important collections to be curated properly and cared for in a way that will make them fully available to the research and educational communities, and that will prepare them for eventual computerization.