Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium Improvement

迈阿密大学和威拉德谢尔曼特雷尔植物标本馆将购买新的植物标本馆，2)雇用研究生教学人员来处理和整理（包括条形码）1994年获得的大约105,000个标本，这些标本是作为礼物、遗赠、孤儿收藏和积压的。该项目将通过购置70个植物标本箱来改善植物标本设施，其中45个用于替换已超过其使用寿命的标本箱，这些标本箱的状况很差，危及这些标本箱内的收藏。25个新病例将完成目前的植物标本室设施，并允许处理和插入大约105 000个标本。获得新的植物标本室案例也将允许植物标本室的全面重组，使其成为迈阿密大学教师和学生的教学和研究以及重要访客和借阅人群的更友好的用户设施。预计完成对收集的插入和重组将更好地服务于环境和保护界，这些界依赖于收集和有关数据来制定俄亥俄州内外的各种管理战略。一旦标本被处理并放入植物标本室，它将成为俄亥俄州最大的植物标本室。这些藏品将特别有价值，因为它将代表美国中西部任何一所大学的主要非维管植物馆藏之一，其中约有18万份藻类、苔藓和真菌学标本，以及约26万份维管植物标本。该植物标本室的真菌学收藏将是美国大学中最大的10个。这个项目是一个必要的前奏，在不久的将来收集计算机化。

ABSTRACT Miami University and the Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium will purchase new herbarium cases and 2) employ graduate teaching fellow equivalents to process and curate (including barcoding) approximately 105,000 specimens acquired as gifts, bequests, orphan collections and backlog during 1994. The project will upgrade the herbmum faclity by the acquisition of seventy herbmum cases, forty five of which represent replacements for cases that have exceeded their useful life and are in such poor condition as to jeopardize the collections housed in those cases. Twenty-five new cases will complete the current herbarium facility and to allow for the processing and intercalation of approximately 105,000 specimens. Acquiring new herbarium cases will also allow for the total reorganization of the Herbarium so that it is a more user friendly facility for both teaching and research by faculty and students at Miami University as well as a significant visitor and borrower population. It is anticipated that the completion of intercalation and reorganization of the collection will better serve the environmental and conservation community that depends of the collection and associated data in the development of various management strategies both within and outside the state of Ohio. Once the specimens have been processed and intercalmed into the Herbarium it will be ranked as the largest herbarium facility in the state of Ohio. The collection will be especially valuable because it will represent one of the major non-vascular plant holdings in any university in the mid-western United States with approximately 180,000 algal, bryological and mycological specimens and approximately another 260,000 vascular plant specimens. The herbarium's mycological collection will be among the ten largest in a university setting in the United States. This project is a necessary prelude to computerization of the collection in the near future.