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33: 1688: 1700: 67:, are one of the 10 largest in the world with over 5 million specimens, and including the Botany Libraries, form the world's largest university owned herbarium. The Gray Herbarium is named after him. HUH hosts the Gray Herbarium Index (GCI) as well as an extensive specimen, botanist, and publications database. HUH was the center for botanical research in the 160:
Collection of Archaeological Plant Remains are housed in the Botanical Museum building. The Botany libraries and various herbaria are located in the Harvard University Herbaria building. The Botany Libraries collectively are a founding member of the
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became the museum's first director in 1888; under his direction the building was completed in 1890 and provided both research facilities and public exhibit space, which were the botanical complement to the
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The Botanical Museum of Harvard University and the other museums that comprise the Harvard Museum of Natural History are physically connected to the
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from 1887 through 1936, the collection comprises approximately 4,400 models including life-size and enlarged parts for over 840
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by the time of its founder's retirement in the 1870s. The materials deposited there are one of the three major sources for the
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Collection of Economic Botany, the Paleobotanical Collection (including the Pollen Collection), and the
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and was predominantly focused on an interdisciplinary study of useful plants (i.e.
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The Botanical museum was founded in 1858. It was originally called the
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The Ware Collection of Glass Models of Plants, popularly known as the "
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and Botanical Museum are institutions located on the grounds of
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IPNI come from three sources: ..., the Gray Card Index (GCI)
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and one admission grants visitors access to all museums.
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Botanical Museum

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Herbaria
Asa Gray
United States of America
International Plant Names Index
economic botany
horticulture
William Hooker
Royal Botanic Garden
George Lincoln Goodale
Agassiz
Museum of Comparative Zoology
medicinal plants
artifacts
archeological
pollen
photographs
Faculty
students
paleobotanical
Precambrian
Oakes Ames
Margaret Towle
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Glass Flowers
Mary

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