4 Millionth Specimen
With 7,800,000 specimens in our herbarium, reaching 4,000,000 specimens catalogued in our…
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With 7,800,000 specimens in our herbarium, reaching 4,000,000 specimens catalogued in our…
Specimens contained in the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium represent the endless…
Collecting plants and algae was sometimes an artistic hobby, with dried or…
Arthonia etymology unknown stevensoniana from Stevenson, honoring Robert Louis Stevenson, author of…
Bioremediation is the use of living organisms to remove contamination from the…
In the United States, there is no formal regulation for the endangered…
The Caribbean, Central America, and South America have long been geographical focal…
In early March of this year Chicita Culberson, whose work has been…
Specimen StoriesCabinet of Curiosities
This bright-colored lichen is called the 'Christmas Lichen' because of its bright…
Cabinet of CuriositiesSpecimen Stories
In the museum world, there's a sort of joke that you never…
NYBG lichen curator James Lendemer and then-PhD student Jessi Allen named this…
Between 1805 and 1813, in Ballylickey on the shores of Bantry Bay,…
See more of Ellen Hutchin's beautifully detailed marine algae collections.
We know Ellen Hutchins produced hundreds of detailed watercolors of marine algae. Some…
Among many of the interesting things Ellen Hutchins collected were collections that…