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Please note that a digitization project is underway; loans may take longer to process and access to the vascular plant collection may be interrupted during this time.
The Harvard University Herbaria include six collections and more than five million specimens of algae, bryophytes, fungi, and vascular plants. Together they form one of the largest university herbarium collections in the world, and the third largest herbarium in the United States. With their state-of-the art research laboratories and world class libraries, the HUH have been a centerpiece of biodiversity science since the early 1800s.
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Featured Collection
Gray Herbarium
Worldwide in scope, containing nearly 2 million specimens. Particular strengths lie in collections from North and South America, Mexico, the West Indies, and early collections from Asia and Europe.
Research Funding Opportunities
The Harvard University Herbaria awards small grants for research in plant, fungal, and algal biodiversity to non-Harvard researchers wishing to travel to the Herbaria. The next application deadline is 1 April 2019. For more details about this program, and all our funding opportunites, click here.