Compact Storage Equipment, Herbarium of Brigham Young University

杨百翰植物标本馆收藏了大约35万份标本，主要来自犹他州。这个植物标本室的藏品可能是世界上该地区植物的最佳代表。这个标本被广泛用于编写《山间植物区系》和《犹他植物区系》，这个植物标本馆是我们理解东部落基山脉和西部大盆地植物区系之间过渡的主要资源。美国西部生物地理学的研究从这些资料中获益匪浅。在过去的几十年里，植物标本室的馆长斯坦利·威尔士博士负责藏品的稳定增长，他现在建议安装一个新的可移动的“计算机化”植物标本室的存储系统。这种改进将支持多年的持续增长的收集。杨百翰植物标本馆等自然历史藏品是了解地球上生命多样性的宝贵资源。它们对许多科学领域的研究都是不可或缺的，包括但不限于系统和进化生物学、生态学、生物地理学和保护学。这些收藏的持续支持和改进将为未来几代研究者提供获取关键研究资源的途径。

The Brigham Young Herbarium contains approximately 350,000 specimens, primarily from the state of Utah. The holdings of this herbarium probably constitute the world's best representation of the plants of this area. This collection has been used extensively for preparation of the Intermountain Flora and the Flora of Utah, and this herbarium is the primary resource for our understanding of the transition between the floras of the Rocky Mountains to the east and the Great Basin to the West. Research on the biogeography of the American West benefits greatly from this collection. Dr. Stanley Welsh, Curator of the Herbarium, has been responsible for the collection's steady growth over the past decades, and he now proposes to install a new storage system of movable "compatorized" herbarium cases. This improvement will support many years of continued growth of the collection. Natural history collections such as the Brigham Young Herbarium constitute the a valuable resource for understanding the diversity of life on earth. They are indispensable to research in many fields of science, including but not limited to systematic and evolutionary biology, ecology, biogeography, and conservation. The continued support and improvement of these collections will provide future generations of investigators with access to critical research resources.