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Name

Bishop Museum
Herbarium Code

BISH
Current Status

Active
Correspondents

Barbara Kennedy, Collections Manager, bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org
Contact

[1] 808 848 4181
Fax: [1] 808 847 8252
Email: bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org
Address

Herbarium Pacificum
Department of Natural Sciences
Bishop Museum
1525 Bernice Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817-2704
U.S.A.
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/collections-3/botany/
CITES

US 024
Specialty

Geography: Pacific, especially Hawaiian Islands; French Polynesia and Fiji; Malesia, especially Papua New Guinea and the Philippines; Micronesia; Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands; Australia; Sri Lanka
Notes

Updated Jan 2017 (website URL updated). Private institution (designated the State Museum of Natural and Cultural History in 1992 and the Hawaii Biological Survey in the same year).
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Date Founded

1908
Updated

/01/2017
Incorporated Herbaria

Brigham Young University, Laie herbarium in 1989;
Combined herbaria of University of Hawaii and Board of Agriculture and Forestry in 1922;
Dept Land and Natural Resources/Endangered Species Program herbarium in 1999;
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association in 1957;
Isabella A. Abbott algal herbarium in 2002.;
Maxwell S. Doty herbarium and library in 1994;
University of Hawaii, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources herbarium in 2001;
William J. Hoe bryophyte herbarium in 1998
Important Collectors

I. A. Abbott, A. Bernatowicz, L. J. Brass, W. T. Brigham, E. L. Caum, E. Christophersen, P. A. Cox, E. Y. Dawson, O. Degener, M. S. Doty, A. D. E. Elmer, U. J. Faurie, J. Florence, C. N. Forbes, F. R. Fosberg, M. L. Grant, B. Harrison Gagné, S. Hatusima, A. A. Heller, D. R. Herbst, W. Hillebrand, W. J. Hoe, G. J. Hollenburg, L. Horowitz, T. Hosokawa, M. D. Hoyle, K. Kadohiro, S. F. Kajewski, R. Kanehira, G. T. Kraft, H. Kylin, J. Lau, M. Littler, M. L. Lohman, D. H. Lorence, H. L. Lyon, H. Mann, E. G. Menez, E. D. Merrill, G. C. Monroe, K. Nagata, J. W. Newhouse, S. Perlman, J. Remy, J. F. C. Rock, R. Schlecter, A. C. Smith, S. H. Sohmer, H. St. John, L. Stemmermann, B. C. Stone, R. D. Svihla, W. A. Takeuchi, J. Tanaka, F. Vaupel, W. A. Whistler, H. E. Womersley, K. R. Wood, D. Yen, T. G. Yuncker