Improvement of Curation of Vertebrate Paleontological Collection

博物馆收藏的脊椎动物化石 加州大学伯克利分校的古生物学教授也是 世界上最重要的。 这些收藏品包括超过 140，000个分类标本，他们提供了一个最 北美历史的完整再现 脊椎动物群。 该大学的部门 古生物学最近成为一个新的部门的一部分， 综合生物学，和集合将被移动到 生命科学大楼的翻新宿舍，沿着 脊椎动物学博物馆。 结合动物学和 古生物学系，并并列化石和最近 脊椎动物收藏，将使新部门的中心， 对脊椎动物进化的研究。 威廉·克莱门斯博士 监督将收藏品转移到新的收藏品 存储区。 将改善获取标本的机会 大，新的季度将支持多年的 收藏量持续增长。 化石的收藏是图书馆， 生命的历史可以研究。 增长和改善这些 收藏品对进化研究至关重要， 了解地球上生命的历史。 拟议 收集的改进将使古生物学家，地质学家， 脊椎动物学家、动物地理学家和进化学家 世界各地的生物学家。

The fossil vertebrate collections of the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, are among the world's most important. These collections comprise more than 140,000 catalogued specimens, and they provide one of the most complete representations of the history of the North American vertebrate fauna available today. The University's Department of Paleontology has recently become part of a new Department of Integrative Biology, and the collections will be moved into renovated quarters in the Life Sciences Building, along with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Combining the zoology and paleontology faculties, and juxtaposing the fossil and Recent vertebrate collections, will make the new department a center for the study of vertebrate evolution. Dr. William Clemens will oversee the transfer of the collections to new compactorized storage areas. Accessibility to specimens will be improved greatly, and the new quarters will support many years of continued collection growth. Collections of fossils are the libraries in which the history of life can be studied. Growth and improvement of these collections is vital to evolutionary studies, and to our understanding of the history of life on earth. The proposed collection improvement will benefit paleontologists, geologists, vertebrate zoologists, biogeographers, and evolutionary biologists around the world.