Tag: specimens

  • Science & Tech

    Critical collections

    Harvard researchers contribute to the preservation of museum specimens, marking the collections’ importance in a special journal released Nov. 19.

    Charles Davis
  • Science & Tech

    Understanding insect damage over time

    A study used herbarium specimens to track insect eating patterns across more than a century and found that four species collected in the early 2000s were 23 percent more likely to be damaged than those collected in the early 1900s.

    Herbarium specimen with insect damage.
  • Health

    On Thoreau’s 200th birthday, a gift for botany

    Marking Thoreau’s 200th birthday, Harvard University Herbaria will post images of more than 800 plants the author and naturalist collected, part of a larger digitization effort.