Support for Scientific Community Services at the Missouri Botanical Garden

密苏里植物园是一个国家分类学研究资源中心，致力于为科学目的获取、保存和研究植物标本。它的植物标本室是植物标本的永久储存库，包括许多类型和其他美国机构没有的标本，重点是新热带和热带非洲。该收藏被植物学系统社区大量用作专论、植物区系和许多其他类型研究的资源，并通过借阅和个人访问获得。该项目将支助为期三年的显微镜、用品和工作人员，以加强标本借阅方案和访客支助服务。

The Missouri Botanical Garden is a National Systematics Research Resource Center committed to the acquisition, preservation, and study of plant specimens for scientific purposes. Its herbarium serves as a permanent repository for plant specimens, including many types, and other specimens not available at other U.S. institutions, with a strong emphasis on the Neotropics and tropical Africa. The collection is heavily used as a resource by the botanical systematic community for monographic, floristic, and numerous other kinds of studies and accessed through loans, and personal visits. This project will support, for a three-year period microscopes, supplies and staff to enhance the loan specimen program and visitor support services.