Curatorial and Facilities Support for the Entomological Collection

夏威夷伯尼斯·P·毕晓普博物馆的昆虫收藏包含了世界上最完整的环太平洋地区的展品。它包含了1300多万个标本，其中13000多个是模式标本。这些藏品的规模仅次于史密森学会和美国自然历史博物馆。格雷西特昆虫学研究中心主席斯科特·米勒博士建议继续改进收藏品，包括安装高密度存储设施，支持访问专家计划，创建收藏品的计算机化清单，以及管理等待分类和标记的大量藏品。拟议的策展工作将增加世界各地的研究人员对这些藏品的可获得性。像这样的博物馆藏品构成了研究地球生物多样性的主要手段。对这些自然历史收藏品进行适当的管理和计算机化，将为控制这种多样性的因素提供新的见解。

The Insect Collection in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Hawaii contains the world's most complete representation from the Pacific Rim. It contains more than 13 million specimens, of which more than 13,000 are type specimens. The collection is surpassed in size only by the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Scott Miller, Chairman of the Gressitt Center for Research in Entomology, proposes continued improvement to the collection, including installation of high-density storage facilities, support for a visiting specialist program, creation of a computerized inventory of the collection, and curation of extensive holdings that await sorting and labelling. The proposed curatorial effort will increase the availability of this collection to investigators from around the world. Museum collections such as this one comprise the primary means of studying the earth's biological diversity. Proper curation and computerization of such natural history collections will offer new insight into the factors that control this diversity.