Replacement of Metal Specimen Tags in the Herpetology Collection, California Academy of Sciences

9708979在加州科学院超过25万个爬行动物标本中，97,861个标本带有金属标签。金属标签上浮雕有目录号和/或地点数据，是本世纪上半叶标准策展程序的一部分，由当时的策展人约瑟夫·R·斯莱文于1927年概述。由于标签相对于样品的大小和质量来说很大，因此对样品造成了物理损害，特别是小的易碎样品。多年来，这些标签中的许多都被腐蚀了，使得上面的目录号难以辨认。该项目将用与收藏品其余部分一致的纤维目录标签取代金属标签，以减轻和防止对标本的进一步损坏和无法恢复的数据的丢失。NSF基金将提供专门的技术援助和新的预先编号的纤维标签，以取代收藏中的所有金属标签。

9708979 Drewes Of over a quarter of a million herpetological specimens at the California Academy of Sciences, 97,861 specimens bear metal tags. The metal tags, upon which catalog number and/or locality data are embossed, were part of the standard curatorial procedure during the first half of this century as outlined by then-curator Joseph R. Slevin in 1927. Because of their large size relative to the size of the specimens, and their mass, the tags have caused physical damage to specimens, particularly small fragile ones. Over the years many of these tags have corroded, making the catalog numbers they bear illegible. This project will replace the metal tags with fiber catalog tags consistent with the rest of the collection, in order to mitigate and prevent further damage to specimens and loss of irretrievable data. NSF funds will provide dedicated technical assistance and new prenumbered fiber tags to replace all metal tags in the collection.