Comprising more than five million specimens ranging from microscopic algae to bulky palm fronds, the National Herbarium is among the world’s largest botanical collections. And with around ...

United States National Herbarium Category Chronology of Smithsonian History Notes Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, ...

You will, perhaps, give admission to a few remarks on Dr. Hooker's instructive “Reply”* to my “Statement” of 16th May, 1872, bearing in mind that this “Statement” was called for in ...

The herbarium adds 8,000 new plant specimens each year.(Supplied: The National Herbarium of NSW)"When you go into the space … it has that mysterious intrigue all archives have," Prudence Gibson ...

A new analysis from researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, ...

THANKS to the generosity of Sir MacPherson Robertson, a new building has just been completed in Melbourne for the housing of the National Herbarium collections, and the transfer of material is in ...