Barnard College

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  • Name

    Barnard College

  • Herbarium Code

    BCBL

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Hilary Callahan, Professor, Hcallaha@barnard.edu

  • Contact

    212-854-5405
    Email: hcallaha@barnard.edu

  • Address

    Barnard College Botanical Laboratory
    Biological Sciences
    Barnard College
    3009 Broadway
    New York, NY 10027
    U.S.A.

  • CITES

    na

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular Plants, coastal algae

    Geography: greater New York City, northeast, western Europe

  • Quarantine Requirements

    24 hour freeze

  • Notes

    Entered Mar 2025. Because of ongoing construction and renovation of Barnard\'s science building, the collectdion is currently stored with the Barnard Archives, part of Columbia University Libraries.. From Barnard's founding, it aimed to offer students training in botany as part of an overall degree-earning curriculum at Columbia or as a special subject of study that did not lead to a degree. This woman''s college was founded one year earlier than the New York Botanical Garden. None of the holdings are directly from Columbia's herbarium, which was transferred to NYBG. Rather, it appears that many active botanists of the day donated specimens to ensure that young women studying botany at the time could study in "a herbarium of her own."

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  • Number of Specimens

    3000

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

    1890

  • Updated

    07/03/2025

  • Associated Institution

    New York Botanical Garden

  • Incorporated Herbaria

    Sarah Louise Clarke