The Duke Herbarium is the second-largest private university herbarium in the U.S. and is home to more than 825,000 plant specimens, including some specimens almost 200 years old. Universities ...

The Duke Herbarium is such an asset, and its loss would be to the detriment of Duke’s reputation as a leading scientific research university.

The herbarium of William & Mary (WILLI) was formally organized in 1968, and has since grown to over 81,500 accessioned specimens representing most of our regional vascular plant species. About one ...

While Alberts acknowledged the herbarium’s closure is “a loss” for Duke and the scientists who operated it, she said, “We do see it as a net positive in the long run for the collection and that is an ...

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 ...

Duke University is relocating its herbarium, which contains dried plants, algae, fungi, lichen and more.

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 ...

Deb Lewis is curator of the Ada Hayden Herbarium inside Bessey Hall at Iowa State. She is handling historic specimens collected by George Washington Carver and Ada Hayden. Credit: Christopher Gannon, ...

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 ...

The herbarium at the Denver Botanic Gardens houses 100,000 collections of arthropods, plants, and mushrooms.

Thanks to a new federal grant and a generous private donation, the University of Wyoming’s Rocky Mountain Herbarium plans to update and expand its current facilities as well as support a graduate ...

A botanist has said specimens in Kew Gardens' herbarium should be sent back to their countries of origin - rather than be relocated to Reading as planned. Professor Muthama Muasya, from the ...