Botany Division, Yale Peabody Museum
Citation
Motz G (2025). Botany Division, Yale Peabody Museum. Yale University Peabody Museum. Metadata dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/hrztgn accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-16.Description
Founded in 1864 by Daniel Cady Eaton from his personal library and plant collection, the Yale Herbarium is an internationally recognized repository with holdings of approximately 350,000 specimens from throughout the world. There are an estimated 3,000 type specimens. The collection is particularly rich in ferns, bryophytes and grasses, as well as in historically important materials from early botanical collectors. In addition, it was the herbarium of record for the flora of southern New England from 1864 until 1955, when that function passed to the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
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Contacts
Gary Motzoriginator
position: Head, Computer Systems Office
Yale Peabody Museum
170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven
06511
CT
US
Telephone: 203-436-1492
email: gary.motz@yale.edu
homepage: http://www.peabody.yale.edu
Patrick Sweeney
administrative point of contact
position: Division of Botany
Yale Peabody Museum
170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven
06511
CT
US
Telephone: 203-432-3537
email: patrick.sweeney@yale.edu
homepage: http://www.peabody.yale.edu