Malacology - Florida Museum of Natural History

佛罗里达自然历史博物馆的软体动物收藏包括超过25万件藏品，主要是新大陆淡水和陆地软体动物。在过去的十年里，通过整合几个被其他大学、博物馆和私人收藏家遗弃的大型而重要的“孤儿”藏品，这些藏品迅速增长。馆长弗雷德·汤普森博士建议为藏品增加159个标本柜，所有标本柜都将安装在最近从博物馆考古学部门转移到软骨病部门的压实机系统上。这一转变增加了分配给软化病的面积的47%，所请求的文件柜将提供大约10年的扩展空间，并将允许立即捕获孤立的收藏品。拟议的项目将促进一项重要的自然历史收藏的增长和改善。系统生物学、生态学、种群生物学和许多其他领域的研究人员将从这些研究收藏的高度可获得性中受益。

The Malacology Collection in the Florida Museum of Natural History includes more than 250,000 lots, principally New World freshwater and land mollusks. This collection has grown rapidly during the past decade through integration of several large and important "orphaned" collections, abandoned by other universities, museums, and private collectors. Dr. Fred Thompson, Curator of the collection, proposes to add 159 specimen cabinets to the collection, all of which would be mounted on a compactor system that was recently shifted from the Museum's Archeology Department to Malacology. This shift has added 47% to the area allocated to Malacology, and the requested cabinets will provide expansion space for approximately 10 years and will allow orphaned collections to be captured without delay. The proposed project will enhance the growth and improvement of an important natural history collection. Researchers in systematic biology, ecology, population biology, and many other fields will benefit from the heightened accessibility of these research collections.