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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Citation

Kennedy J (2023). Harvard University Herbaria: All Records. Harvard University Herbaria. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/o3pvnh accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-01-30.

Description

This dataset contains all digitized specimen records stewarded by the Harvard University Herbaria. The Harvard University Herbaria, with over 5 million specimens, is the world’s largest University Herbaria. Included in the Herbaria are what were once six separate herbarium collections: * Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum (A) * Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames (ECON) * Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium (AMES) * Farlow Herbarium (FH) * Gray Herbarium (GH) * New England Botanical Club Herbarium (NEBC). DarwinCore data follows the AppleCore guidance https://code.google.com/p/applecore/.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

The Harvard University Herbaria collections are global in scope with notably rich collections from Asia and North America.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Jonathan Kennedy
originator
position: Director of Biodiversity Informatics
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
02138
MA
US
Telephone: 16174952331
email: jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Jonathan Kennedy
metadata author
position: Director of Biodiversity Informatics
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
02138
MA
US
Telephone: 16174952331
email: jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Jonathan Kennedy
point of contact
position: Director of Biodiversity Informatics
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
02138
MA
US
Telephone: 16174952331
email: jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Michaela Schmull
point of contact
position: Director of Collections
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
02138
MA
US
email: mschmull@oeb.harvard.edu
Charles Davis
point of contact
position: Curator of Vascular Plant Collection; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
02138
MA
US
email: cdavis@oeb.harvard.edu
Donald Pfister
point of contact
position: Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany; Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
02138
MA
US
email: dpfister@oeb.harvard.edu
Elena Kramer
point of contact
position: Interim Director; Bussey Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
02138
MA
US
email: ekramer@oeb.harvard.edu
Jonathan Kennedy
administrative point of contact
position: Director of Biodiversity Informatics
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
02138
MA
US
Telephone: 16174952331
email: jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
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