A small team of students works part-time at the herbarium, helping with ongoing tasks such as specimen mounting and filing. Herbarium specimens are used frequently in research projects. Lewis recalled ...

This article was originally published with the title “Method of Preserving the Color of Plants in an Herbarium” inSA Supplements Vol. 29 No. 745supp(April 1890), p. 11910doi:10.1038 ...

Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and ...

2022 in Review: The National Herbarium Goes Digital In May, the museum completed a groundbreaking digitization process that brought nearly four million pressed plants online.

Duke University has decided to close its herbarium, a collection of 825,000 specimens of plants, fungi and algae that was established more than a century ago. The collection, one of the largest ...