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Name

University of Massachusetts
Herbarium Code

MASS
Current Status

Active
Correspondents

Tristram Seidler, Curator, tseidler@bio.umass.edu
Contact

[1] 413 545 2775
Fax: [1] 413 545 3243
Address

Herbarium
Biology Department
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-5810
U.S.A.
http://informatics.bio.umass.edu/museum/herbarium
Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Includes bryophytes and algae

Geography: Worldwide with emphasis on New England and tropical Pacific
Notes

Updated Sep 2014. MASS fungi and lichens (30 756 specimens) transferred to NY in 1989.
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Date Founded

1869
Updated

/09/2014
Incorporated Herbaria

AC (84 000 specimens) on permanent loan in 1961;
part of HNH.;
TUFT (20 000 specimens) in 1998
Important Collectors

H. E. Ahles, R. Bertin, A. Brown, O. Degener, W. W. Denslow, A. S. Goodale, A. J. Grout, A. A. Heller, E. Jarvis, H. G. Jesup, G. L. Kirk, R. Poland, C. G. Pringle, R. Schuster, F. C. Seymour, A. C. Smith, B. Sorrie, E. Tuckerman