Curation of Three Large Molluscan Collections

作为持续安置和改善其 加州科学院的无脊椎动物收藏 试图整合三个大型软体动物收藏， 最近收购的。 新藏品包括 石鳖和海蛞蝓 此外，辅助材料，如 彩色荧光片、显微镜载玻片和出版物， 与收藏品一起捐赠，增加其价值， 研究人员 捐赠标本的鉴定将 由项目部分支持的访问专家提出。 的 学院还将开始重新策划其以前的收藏， 这两类保存在液体中的生物 标本含有在传统干燥中丢失的软体部分， 软体动物制剂，因此非常有用。 最后， 软体动物收集数据的计算机化，开始于一个 以前的奖项，将继续下去。

As part of the ongoing rehousing and improvement of its invertebrate collections, the California Academy of Sciences seeks to integrate three large molluscan collections it has recently acquired. The new collections include major holdings of chitons and sea slugs. In addition, adjunct materials such as color transparencies, microscope slides, and publications were donated with the collections, increasing their value to researchers. Identifications of the donated specimens will be made by visiting experts partially supported by the project. The Academy will also begin to re-curate its previous collections of these two groups that are preserved in liquid; such wet specimens contain the soft body parts lost in traditional dry mollusc preparations and thus are extremely useful. Finally, computerization of collection data for the mollusks, begun in a previous award, will continue.