In May, the museum completed a groundbreaking digitization process that brought nearly four million pressed plants online. Jack Tamisiea With the help of a conveyor belt and high-speed camera, members ...

AMES, Iowa – The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those ...

Does the word herbarium bring up the image of a lush garden filled with luxuriant plants? Think again. An herbarium actually serves as a type of natural history museum, an archive of preserved plant ...

William & Mary’s herbarium (WILLI) has come a long way since its official founding in 1968. Today, it houses more than 81,500 accessioned specimens—an impressive record of vascular plants from the ...

The Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU) is a broad collection, both taxonomically and geographically. Holdings include specimens of vascular plants, mosses, fungi, and algae, along with our special ...

David Tank, a botany professor and director of UW’s Rocky Mountain Herbarium, examines a specimen of Wyoming paintbrush. Herbarium specimens are central to his research program. (UW Photo) Thanks to a ...

University officials say they cannot afford to maintain one of the largest herbariums in the United States. Researchers are urging Duke to reconsider. By Carl Zimmer Duke University has decided to ...

The Duke Herbarium, one of the largest herbaria in the country, will shut down and have its plants relocated in the next two to three years, according to a Tuesday email obtained by The Chronicle.

I am shocked and saddened by the plan to close the Duke Herbarium — one of the most important resources in my Duke experience from 2002 to 2013. For my honors thesis, I collected mosses in the North ...