Botanical collections
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Botanical specimens
Search the Museum's digital collections for botanical specimens.
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Plant diversity in Paraguay
Search a database of flowering plants and ferns from Paraguay and find out how plant inventories are aiding conservation.
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The George Clifford Herbarium
A prolific collector, Clifford employed Carl Linnaeus to catalogue his garden and herbarium.
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The Paul Hermann Herbarium
Hermann's dried plants and drawings represent the first major botanical collection from the East Indies.
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The John Clayton Herbarium
One of the earliest plant collectors in Virginia, Clayton contributed many type specimens to Linnaean classification.
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The Sir Hans Sloane Herbarium
Sloane amassed a collection so large it formed the foundation of the Natural History Museum. The Herbarium contains volumes from his pioneering voyage to Jamaica.