Yale University Herbarium, Yale Peabody Museum (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History-YU)

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 5,000 type specimens. The collection is particularly rich in ferns, bryophytes and grasses, as well as in historically important materials from the 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.

Contacts: Patrick W. Sweeney, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu

Homepage: http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/bot/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 15 February 2017

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Access Rights: Open Access, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; see Yale Peabody policies at: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/8931zqj

Address:

Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University

170 Whitney Avenue

New Haven, Connecticut 06511

United States of America

(203) 432-3537

http://peabody.yale.edu/

Collection Statistics

64,672 specimen records
37,846 (59%) georeferenced
62,224 (96%) with images (69,840 total images)
59,916 (93%) identified to species
291 families
1,344 genera
5,832 species
6,252 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Portal Menu Text-based Search Map-guided Search Collections Species Lists Sitemap Crowdsourcing Log In New Account	Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile Yale University Herbarium, Yale Peabody Museum (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History-YU) 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 5,000 type specimens. The collection is particularly rich in ferns, bryophytes and grasses, as well as in historically important materials from the 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. Contacts: Patrick W. Sweeney, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu Homepage: http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/bot/ Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Data snapshot of local collection database Last Update: 15 February 2017 Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Access Rights: Open Access, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; see Yale Peabody policies at: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/8931zqj Address: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University 170 Whitney Avenue New Haven, Connecticut 06511 United States of America (203) 432-3537 http://peabody.yale.edu/ Collection Statistics 64,672 specimen records 37,846 (59%) georeferenced 62,224 (96%) with images (69,840 total images) 59,916 (93%) identified to species 291 families 1,344 genera 5,832 species 6,252 total taxa (including subsp. and var.) Extra Statistics Show Geographic Distribution Show Family Distribution
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