Chicago Academy of Sciences, Botany Collection (CHAS-Herb)

The CHAS Botany Collection focuses on vascular species of North America, particularly the Midwest/Great Lakes region, from 1834 to the present. There are also a small number of lichen and bryophyte specimens, as well as vascular species from South America and Europe. Over 15,000 specimens have been digitally inventoried and 2,000 have been imaged. The un-digitized backlog is estimated to be approximately 5,000 sheets. Notable collectors include: Henry H. Babcock, H. R. Bennett, A. Chase, W. P. Conant, George B. Grant, F. H. Hosford, H. F. Jaeger, Anna Pederson Kummer, C. G. Lloyd, W. S. Moffatt, E. L. Moseley, Walter L. Necker, E. Palmer, R. S. Schmidt, E. Stimpson, F. A. Swink, L. M. Umbach, H. Van Heurck, Dora Wilken, J. Wolfe, Elizabeth Emerson Atwater, W. W. Calkins, and Herman Silas Pepoon.

Collections Manager: Dawn Roberts, droberts@naturemuseum.org
Tipo de Colección: Preserved Specimens
Administración: Instantánea de datos de un base de datos local
última Actualización: 25 April 2022
Metadata Digital: EML File
Derechos de Acceso: http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
Estadísticas de Colección
  • 10,018 registros de especímenes
  • 2,897 (29%) georeferenciado
  • 2,110 (21%) con imágenes (2,120 imágenes en total)
  • 7,771 (78%) identificado a las especies
  • 316 familias
  • 1,135 géneros
  • 2,791 especies
  • 3,058 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Estadísticas Extras
Distribución de Taxon
Distribución de Taxon
  • Opuntia (1)
  • Schlumbergera (1)