Henrietta Page’s Sketchbook April 5, 2019Danielle Castronovo, Archivist for the Botany Libraries, and Jason Karakehian, student in the Pfister Lab... Read more about Henrietta Page’s Sketchbook
Discovery of the first Precambrian fossils March 22, 2019 Molly Edwards, OEB Graduate student (Kramer Lab) and the powerhouse behind Science IRL, put together an amazing video featuring our Paleobotanical Collection... Read more about Discovery of the first Precambrian fossils
Glass Flowers to be featured in a new book March 14, 2019The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, popularly known as the Glass Flowers, is considered one of the University's greatest treasures.... Read more about Glass Flowers to be featured in a new book
Congratulations, Jeannette! March 7, 2019Congratulations to our Administrative Manager, Jeannette Everritt, on being honored with a Dean's Distinction Award!... Read more about Congratulations, Jeannette!
Digitizing Endless Forms January 2, 2019 The Harvard Herbaria are one of 17 research institutions participating in an effort to scan and share two million plant specimens over the next three years.... Read more about Digitizing Endless Forms
The Importance of Biological Collections December 3, 2018 A special theme-issue of Philosophical Transactions B, Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene, compiled and edited by Emily K. Meineke,... Read more about The Importance of Biological Collections
Unearthing Scientific History through Art November 1, 2018 A blog post on BHL highlights how unprecedented research is being made possible with the digitization of archives, manuscripts, and books, such as Harvard Icones.... Read more about Unearthing Scientific History through Art
Herbarium specimens reveal changes in herbivory patterns September 4, 2018 Emily Meineke, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Davis Lab, is the lead author of a study to examine the effects of climate change over the last 100 years... Read more about Herbarium specimens reveal changes in herbivory patterns
Exploring The Fells with Walter August 29, 2018Walter Kittredge, Curatorial Assistant, conducts monthly ‘tree walks’ at The Middlesex Fells Reservation (The Fells)... Read more about Exploring The Fells with Walter
An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes August 15, 2018 Kanchi N. Gandhi, Senior Nomenclatural Registrar, has co-authored two new books on Indian Pteridophytes... Read more about An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes
Amazonian rainforests play key role in Neotropic diversity July 23, 2018 Alexandre Antonelli, Cisneros Visiting Scholar, and colleagues used information gathered from the natural-history collections of the HUH... Read more about Amazonian rainforests play key role in Neotropic diversity
New Species of Tovomita July 9, 2018 Lucas Marinho, HUH Travel Grant recipient, has recently published a paper in Brittonia describing two new species of Tovomita... Read more about New Species of Tovomita
The Brave New World of the Digital Herbarium April 18, 2018 Professor Charles Davis and Aaron Ellison, Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at the Harvard Forest... Read more about The Brave New World of the Digital Herbarium
Bats and fungi April 13, 2018Last summer Pfister Lab graduate student, Danny Haelewaters, teamed up with 5 other researchers to capture bats... Read more about Bats and fungi
2018 Clara Cummings Walk March 23, 2018 The Friends of the Farlow announces details for this year's Clara Cummings Walk... Read more about 2018 Clara Cummings Walk
Congratulations, Michaela! February 22, 2018 Congratulations to Michaela Schmull, Director of Collections, on her honor of being awarded the Dean's Distinction Award!... Read more about Congratulations, Michaela!
Salt Prints at Harvard January 17, 2018 Images from the Gray Herbarium Archives are included the Weissman Preservation Center’s new website, Salt Prints at Harvard. ... Read more about Salt Prints at Harvard
Sampling bias in herbarium collections December 22, 2017 HUH Postdoctoral Fellow Barnabas Daru and colleagues uncovered sampling bias in herbarium collections... Read more about Sampling bias in herbarium collections
Rotten Apples October 16, 2017 A new exhibit inside the Glass Flowers gallery... Read more about Rotten Apples
Thoreau goes online July 7, 2017Happy 200th birthday Henry David Thoreau!... Read more about Thoreau goes online
