Support for Invertebrate Paleontology Collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

哈佛大学比较动物学博物馆的无脊椎动物化石收藏是由路易斯·阿加西于19世纪中期开始的。它已经成长为来自世界各地的所有地质年代的模式和参考标本的国际重要收藏。馆藏的改进将为研究人员提供更多获取感兴趣的标本的机会，并将通过发现和记录目前与非模式标本一起归档的模式标本来促进新的研究。一个头足类模式目录最近已经完成，三叶虫模式目录的工作现在正在开始。自然历史收藏是保存生命历史的图书馆。这本书为几代学生和研究人员探索进化史提供了服务。这样的策展工作将确保未来几代古生物学家、无脊椎动物动物学家和进化生物学家将继续获得这一至关重要的资源。

The invertebrate fossil collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, was begun by Louis Agassiz in the mid-1800s. It has grown to be an internationally important collection of type and reference specimens of all geologic ages from around the world. Curatorial improvement of this collection will provide researchers with greater access to specimens of interest, and will promote new research by uncovering and documenting type specimens that are now filed with non-types. A catalogue of type cephalopods has been completed recently, and work on a type trilobite catalog is now being initiated. Natural history collections are the libraries in which the history of life are preserved. This collection has served generations of students and researchers in their explorations of the evolutionary past. Curatorial efforts such as this will ensure that future generations of paleontologists, invertebrate zoologists, and evolutionary biologists will continue to have access to this critically important resource.