Difference between revisions of "Microscope Slide Curation"

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Statement of Purpose

These links and documents contain information about best practices for microscope slide curation.

Introduction

Nots on Application

Especially small invertebrate specimens like worms, insects, crustaceans, and mites are mounted as whole mounts on microscope slides and studied by transmitted light microscopy. The slides include also body parts of medium-sized animals and histological sections as well as both type and voucher material. Quite frequently, researchers in taxonomy want the inner organs of the specimens to be removed in order to study just the cuticular exoskeleton.

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Mounting Media Considerations

A comprehensive review of historical products and processes used in microscope slide creation can be found at Neuhaus et. al., featuring microscope slides, their preparation, long-time storage, curatorial measures in collections, deterioration, restoration. It covers than 600 references from the 19th century until 2016, 15 patents, and about 100 Materials Safety Data Sheets (Neuhaus et. al, 2017).

Critical article with lists of mounting media, ringing solutions, and other critical slide techniques: "A Review of Techniques Used in the Preparation, Curation and Conservation of Microscope Slides at the Natural History Museum, London"^[1]

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References

1. ↑ Brown, P. A. (1997). A Review of Techniques Used in the Preparation, Curation and Conservation of Microscope Slides at the Natural History Museum, London. The Biology Curator, 10 ‐ Supplement, 1 ‐ 4. http://www.natsca.org/article/455

Allan, E. L., Price, B. W., Shchedrina, O., Dupont, S., Livermore, L., & Smith, V. (2018). A low cost approach to specimen level imaging of natural history microscope slides using a DSLR system.

Allan E, Livermore L, Price B, Shchedrina O, Smith V () A Novel Automated Mass Digitisation Work ow for Natural History Microscope Slides.

Brown, P. A. (1997). A review of techniques used in the preparation, curation and conservation of microscope slides at the Natural History Museum, London. Biology Curator 10: 1–34.

Calhoun, J. V., & Hawkins, R. L. (2016). Notes about early entomological type labels in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 58, 114-118.

Cobb, N. S., Gall, L. F., Zaspel, J. M., Dowdy, N. J., McCabe, L. M., & Kawahara, A. Y. (2019). Assessment of North American arthropod collections: Prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research. PeerJ, 7, e8086.

Conn, D. B. (2002). Parasite collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. In Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Parasitology. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, Italy (pp. 585-589).

Decker, P., Christian, A., & Xylander, W. E. (2018). VIRMISCO–the virtual microscope slide collection. ZooKeys, (741), 271.

Heerlien, M., Van Leusen, J., Schnörr, S., de Jong-Kole, S., Raes, N., & Van Hulsen, K. (2015). The natural history production line: an industrial approach to the digitization of scientific collections. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), 8(1), 1-11.

Hudson, L. N., Blagoderov, V., Heaton, A., Holtzhausen, P., Livermore, L., Price, B. W., ... & Smith, V. S. (2015). Inselect: automating the digitization of natural history collections. PloS one, 10(11), e0143402.

Lendemer, J., Thiers, B., Monfils, A. K., Zaspel, J., Ellwood, E. R., Bentley, A., ... & Aime, M. C. (2020). The extended specimen network: A strategy to enhance US biodiversity collections, promote research and education. BioScience, 70(1), 23-30.

Meineke, E. K., Davies, T. J., Daru, B. H., & Davis, C. C. (2019). Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1763), 20170386.

Nelson, G., Paul, D., Riccardi, G., & Mast, A. R. (2012). Five task clusters that enable efficient and effective digitization of biological collections. ZooKeys, (209), 19.

Neuhaus, B., Schmid, T., & Riedel, J. (2017). Collection management and study of microscope slides: Storage, profiling, deterioration, restoration procedures, and general recommendations (Vol. 4322, No. 1, pp. 1-173). Magnolia Press.

Schindel, D. E., & Cook, J. A. (2018). The next generation of natural history collections. PLoS Biology, 16(7), e2006125.

Schmid, T., Hidde, J., Grünier, S., Jungnickel, R., Dariz, P., Riedel, J., & Neuhaus, B. (2021). Ageing Effects in Mounting Media of Microscope Slide Samples from Natural History Collections: A Case Study with Canada Balsam and PermountTM. Polymers, 13(13), 2112.

von Baeyer, M., & Marston, J. M. (2021). Best practices for digitizing a wood slide collection: The Bailey-Wetmore Wood Collection of the Harvard University Herbaria. Quaternary International, 593, 50-59.

Wieczorek, J., Bloom, D., Guralnick, R., Blum, S., Döring, M., Giovanni, R., ... & Vieglais, D. (2012). Darwin Core: an evolving community-developed biodiversity data standard. PloS one, 7(1), e29715.

Whittaker, R. J., Araújo, M. B., Jepson, P., Ladle, R. J., Watson, J. E., & Willis, K. J. (2005). Conservation biogeography: assessment and prospect. Diversity and distributions, 11(1), 3-23.