Upgrading of Mollusk Collection, Los Angeles County Museum

美国自然历史博物馆的软体动物收藏 洛杉矶县是美国西部最大的县 也是全国第三大 它代表了 东太平洋海洋动物群是现存最完整的 并被所有研究该地区的现代工作者所使用。 此外，该系列在小型物种中表现出色 世界各地，并拥有大量的非海洋软体动物。 以前的奖项已经允许收集开始 把它的财产电脑化 当地的数据来自总共近 8，000个来自完整记录的探险来源的站点已经被 标准化并输入计算机。 本项目有五个主要目标：1）扩建 和重新安排海洋参考资料， 将三个地区的收藏系统地整合到一个单一的收藏中- 收集整理。 2)新收购的保险公司 来自加州大学的近期软体动物收藏 在洛杉矶。 3)一个大型调查收集的策展， 加州南部的一个港口 管理 4)计算机输入标本数据的类型 收藏. 5)继续支持访问 调查人员将检查和重新安排部分的 收藏.

The malacology collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest in the western United States and the third largest in the country. Its representation of the Eastern Pacific marine fauna is the most complete in existence and has been used by all modern workers studying the region. Additionally, the collection is strong in small-sized species worldwide and has significant holdings of non-marine mollusks. Previous awards have allowed the collection to begin computerizing its holdings. Locality data from a total of nearly 8,000 stations from fully documented expedition sources have been standardized and entered into the computer. The current project has five major objectives: 1) Expansion and rearrangement of the marine reference collection to integrate the three regional collections into a single systematically- arranged collection. 2) Curation of the newly acquired collection of Recent mollusks from the University of California at Los Angeles. 3) Curation of a large survey collection made off southern California under the auspices of the Bureau of Land Management. 4) Computer entry of data for specimens in the type collection. 5) Continuation of support for visiting investigators who will examine and re-arrange portions of the collection.