The Institute of Museum Services IMS has awarded a $46,880 Conservation Project Support grant to the Peabody Museum of Natural History. The museum will use the grant to conserve and re-house its osteology --bone -- collection, which was started in the mid-1800s by O.C. Marsh, one of the central figures in the early study of dinosaurs. The collection serves as a resource for exhibition, research and teaching activities, and is noted for its size, the breadth of its coverage, the number of rare species represented, and the quality of its mounted specimens. The IMS's Conservation Project Support grant program provides matching funds for high-priority conservation activities so museums can preserve their collections for future generations.