Curation of Vertebrate Spirit Specimens of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

耶鲁皮博迪博物馆（Yale Peabody Museum，YPM）收藏了世界著名的脊椎动物标本。脊椎动物学部门（VZ）的全部藏品中约有30%是液体保存的标本。这个项目的目标是重现YPM的整个流体保存脊椎动物动物收藏，以促进收藏的可访问性，并促进其在研究和教育中的使用。YPM-VZ？160多年来，耶鲁大学的学者、其他机构的研究人员和政府机构积累了大量的液体保存的收藏品。我们将回顾YPM-VZ的全部精神标本收藏，包括鱼类，两栖动物，爬行动物，鸟类和哺乳动物。这些活动将包括重新震击，重新贴标签，更换液体，检查标识，评估数据质量等，VZ精神收藏品的重新安置和储存条件的改善将有助于保护这些独特的材料，并促进对它们的比较生物学研究。回收将促进访问者，教师和学生希望使用的集合。该项目将通过YPM的课后实习计划为耶鲁大学本科生和高中实习生（其中大多数是代表性不足的少数民族学生）提供策展，识别和数据库培训。

The Yale Peabody Museum (YPM) houses a world-renowned collection of vertebrate specimens. Approximately 30 percent of the entire holdings of the Division of Vertebrate Zoology (VZ) are fluid-preserved specimens. The goal of this project is to recurate the entire fluid-preserved vertebrate zoology collections of YPM, to facilitate accessibility of the collections, and to promote their use in research and education. YPM-VZ?s fluid-preserved collections have been amassed over more than 160 years by Yale academics, researchers from other institutions, and government agencies. We will recurate of the entire spirit specimen collections in the YPM-VZ including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. These activities will include rejarring, relabeling, changing fluids, checking identifications, evaluating data quality, etc. The rehousing and improvement of storage conditions of the VZ spirit collections will help preserve these unique materials, and foster comparative biological research on them. Recuration will foster accessibility to visitors, faculty, and students wishing to use the collections. The project will provide curation, identification, and database training for Yale undergraduates, and high school interns (most of whom are under-represented minority students) through the YPM's after-school intern program.