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University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Bryophytes (NEB)

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The Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.

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GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/869551f8-1c58-45fd-9c50-3a2aff12ad55

Address:

University of Nebraska State Museum
C.E. Bessey Herbarium, University of Nebraska
Morrill Hall
645 N. 14th St.
Lincoln, NE   68588-0338
US
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/botany/botany.html

Collection Statistics

  • 10,920 specimen records
  • 572 (5%) georeferenced
  • 10,917 (100%) with media (14,098 total media)
  • 10,051 (92%) identified to species
  • 134 families
  • 391 genera
  • 1,782 species
  • 2,032 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0645b78a-a185-484b-8c60-c6c275a6a41a
Digital Metadata: EML File
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