Bishop Museum

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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

  • Exchange

    Exchange Available: All groups of Hawaii and Pacific Basin

    Exchange Wanted: All groups of Pacific and Asian tropics

  • 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).

  • Feedback

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  • Number of Specimens

    750000

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae
    Bryophytes
    Fungi/Lichens
    Pteridophytes
    Seed Plants
  • 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