CSBR: Natural History: Saving and Preserving the Cornell University Plant Anatomy Collection (CUPAC) And The Cornell University Paleobotanical Slide Collection (CUPC-S)

CSBR：自然史：康奈尔大学植物解剖学收藏（CUPAC）和康奈尔大学古植物学收藏（CUPC-S）包含超过114，000张显微镜载玻片，是一系列出版物中描述和插图的基础。 这些藏品是20世纪世纪中后期的研究成果，是不可替代的，展示了野生、园艺和作物植物以及已灭绝的化石植物的解剖特征，从藻类到松树再到兰花。 除了记录杰出植物科学家的原始工作外，该系列还可以进一步调查，重新检查已发表的信息和新的研究。 每张幻灯片都需要大量的劳动密集型过程，从植物材料的采购（通常来自偏远的热带地区），详细的准备，包埋和切片，染色以获得光学清晰度，并永久安装在载玻片上。 由于其巨大的科学价值和与植物解剖学和古植物学历史的联系，这些收藏品是无价的和独特的。 通过稳定和保存幻灯片，该项目将为科学界节省宝贵和不可替代的资源。 该项目还将对幻灯片进行成像和数据库化，并通过网络向公众和科学界提供这些数据。 这一公共资源将允许生物学、植物科学和林业的大学和高中教师访问高质量的解剖幻灯片进行演示，而无需自己购买或准备材料。 所有图像和数据也将通过与国家和国际门户网站共享数据提供给更广泛的社区，该项目的目标是清点、稳定和保护CUPAC和CUPC-S的收藏品和相关笔记本，并对图像和数据库进行管理。七万五千张幻灯片。 这将包括所有类型的材料和出版凭证，以及分类学和解剖学覆盖范围的额外选择的幻灯片。许多CUPAC幻灯片都与植物标本馆标本和所有的CUPC-S材料与化石标本存放在康奈尔大学。这些收藏品包括Bailey、摩尔和Uhl提供的植物标本馆提供的棕榈（槟榔科）材料的特殊代表，Bierhorst和Eames的重要出版凭证，Carlquist、Esau和Maheshwari提供的幻灯片，以及Banks提供的关键早期植物化石制剂。 该项目将包括条形码、与相关笔记本数据的链接、与康奈尔植物标本馆和化石数据库的链接以及使用3200万像素系统的高分辨率光学显微镜数字成像。 所有载玻片将被重新安置在新的机柜中，并在可能的情况下修复损坏的支架。 在线数据库将允许按器官/组织/特征、分类身份、科学家/研究人员、地点和出版物进行高级搜索。 此外，在线测量工具将为科学家利用该系统进行远程分析提供一种手段，并直接用于各级植物解剖学和古生物学教学，包括大学和K-12。由此产生的数据库和图像将在cupac.bh.cornell.edu（CUPAC）网站上公布。

CSBR: Natural History: Saving and Preserving two Valuable Slide Collections at Cornell University.The Cornell University Plant Anatomy Collection (CUPAC) and the Cornell University Paleobotanical Slide Collection (CUPC-S) comprise more than 114,000 glass microscope slides that are the basis for descriptions and illustrations in an exceptional array of publications. The result of research in the middle and latter half of the Twentieth Century, these collections are irreplaceable, and illustrate anatomical features of wild, horticultural and crop plants as well as extinct fossil plants, from algae to pine trees to orchids. In addition to documenting the original work of eminent plant scientists, the collection is a source of further investigation, rechecking of published information, and new studies. Each slide required an extensive and labor-intensive process, from procurement of plant material (often from remote tropical regions), detailed preparation, embedding and sectioning, staining for optical clarity, and permanently mounting on glass slides. Because of their great scientific value and connection to the history of plant anatomy and paleobotany, the collections are priceless and unique. By stabilizing and preserving the slides, this project will save a valuable and irreplaceable resource for the scientific community. The project will also image and database the slides and make these data available through the web to the general public and scientific community. This public resource will allow college and high school teachers of biology, plant sciences, and forestry to access high-quality anatomical slides for demonstration without needing to purchase or prepare materials themselves. All images and data will also be made available to an even broader community through sharing of data with national and international portals.The goal of the project is to inventory, stabilize and protect the CUPAC and CUPC-S collections and associated notebooks, and to image and digitize ca. 75,000 slides. This will include all type materials and publication vouchers, and additional selected slides for breadth of taxonomic and anatomical coverage. Many of the CUPAC slides are vouchered with herbarium specimens and all of the CUPC-S materials are vouchered with fossil specimens housed at Cornell. The collections include an exceptional representation of herbarium-vouchered palm (Arecaceae) material from Bailey, Moore and Uhl, important publication vouchers for Bierhorst and Eames, contributed slides from Carlquist, Esau and Maheshwari, and pivotal early plant fossil preparations by Banks. The project will include barcoding, linkage to data from associated notebooks, linkage to Cornell herbarium and fossil databases, and digital imaging with high-resolution light microscopy using a 32-megapixel system. All slides will be rehoused in new cabinets and damaged mounts will be repaired where possible. The online database will allow advanced search by organ/tissue/feature, taxonomic identity, scientist/researcher, locality and publication. In addition, online measurement tools will provide a means of utilizing the system for remote analysis by scientists, and direct use in plant anatomy and paleontology instruction at all levels, including college and K-12. The resulting database and images will be made public on the cupac.bh.cornell.edu (CUPAC) website.