Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium Improvement

摘要 迈阿密大学和威拉德谢尔曼特瑞尔植物标本馆将 购买新的标本箱和2）雇用相当于研究生教学研究员的人员处理和保管（包括条形码）1994年作为礼物、遗赠、孤儿收藏和积压的大约105 000件标本。该项目将通过收购70个herbmum箱来升级herbmum设施，其中45个箱代表更换已超过使用寿命且状况恶劣的箱，以危及这些箱中的收藏品。25个新的标本室将使现有的植物标本室设施完备，并可处理和插入大约105 000个标本。 获得新的植物标本馆的情况下，也将允许植物标本馆的整体重组，使它是一个更用户友好的设施，为教学和研究的教师和学生在迈阿密大学以及一个重要的游客和借款人的人口。预计完成对收集的嵌入和重组将更好地为环境和保护界服务，因为环境和保护界依赖收集和相关数据来制定各种管理战略， 和俄亥俄州以外的地方。 一旦标本被处理并保存到植物标本馆，它将被列为俄亥俄州最大的植物标本馆。该藏品将特别有价值，因为它将代表美国中西部任何大学的主要非维管植物藏品之一，约有180，000个藻类，苔藓和真菌标本以及另外约260，000个维管植物标本。该标本馆的真菌收藏将成为美国大学环境中十大收藏之一。这一项目是在不久的将来将收藏品计算机化的必要前奏。

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.