Proposal to Complete the Re-housing and Renovation of the Invertebrate Paleontology Collections

哈佛大学比较动物学博物馆是美国最重要的无脊椎动物化石收藏之一。自19世纪50年代由路易斯·阿加西（Louis Agassiz）创建以来，该收藏一直是美国和国外研究人员的重要资源，收藏了超过10,000种和100多万个标本。然而，虽然藏品没有被忽视，但在过去的一个世纪里也没有得到很大的改善。它现在低于人们对其规模和意义的收藏可能期望的标准。无脊椎动物化石收藏现代化的主要目标是在高度安全的情况下，将现在分散在收藏中的种类和其他有价值的标本聚集在一起；为剩余的收藏品增加、更换和翻新房屋，包括安装压缩器；并将这些收藏计算机化，变成一个完全可搜索的基于网络的数据库。

The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University houses one of the premier collections of invertebrate fossils in the US. Since its founding by Louis Agassiz in the 1850s, the collection has served as an important resource for researchers from the US and abroad, housing over 10,000 types and more than a million specimens. However, while the collection has not been neglected, neither has it been much improved over the course of the last century. It now falls below the standards that one might expect for a collection of its size and significance. The primary goals for modernization of the invertebrate fossil collection are to assemble together in high security cases the types and other valuable specimens now scattered throughout the collection; to add, replace, and renovate the housing for the remainder of the collection, including installation of compactors; and to computerize the collection into a fully searchable web-based database.