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The United States National Herbarium is a collection of five million preserved plant specimens housed in the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It represents about 8% of the plant collection resources of the United States and is one of the ten largest herbaria in the ...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to address this challenge by digitizing the natural history literature held in their collections and making it freely available for open ...
The index is prepared in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. An electronic version is available online. Index Herbariorum , the first six editions (vol. 15, 31, 86, 92, 93, 106, 109, 114, 117, 120), a directory and guide to the herbaria of the world, including contact information, abbreviation codes, and important collections ...
The Smithsonian Institution began publishing consolidated compilations of quarto-sized papers in 1848, under the name Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. [1] In 1862 octavo-sized papers called Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections were added, [1] followed by the monographic Bulletin of the United States National Museum in 1875, [1] and the compiled Proceedings of the United States National ...
File:Smithsonian miscellaneous collections (IA smithsonianmisce871934smit).pdf ... Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Nancy M. Prichard ... Version of PDF ...
Open cabinets highlighting Department of Entomology collections at the National Museum of Natural History. Photo by Chip Clark. The Department of Entomology is a research department and collection unit of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), located in Washington, D.C.
Greene then became an associate in botany at the Smithsonian Institution (1904–1915), transferring some 4,000 volumes and his valuable herbarium to the institution for a period of ten years. Greene began to focus on the history of his field, publishing his seminal work Landmarks of Botanical History, Part 1 in 1909. The second volume was ...
The Smithsonian Transcription Center is a crowdsourcing transcription project that aims to assist with the preservation and digitization of handwritten material in the Smithsonian Institution. [2] The Transcription Center cites five reasons why transcription matters: discovery, humanities research, scientific research, education, and ...