Herbaria, Herbarium Specimens and Field Notebooks

• Berlin negatives, digitized photographic images from Berlin Dahlem (specimens later lost in WWII) of herbarium specimens collected in Central and South America from 1778 through May 1930.

• Biodiversity collections index lists specimens held in reference collections around the world.

• Botany collections database, Field Museum

• Chinese virtual herbarium

• Consortium of California herbaria includes many California types.

• C.V. Starr virtual herbarium(NYBG)

• Index herbariorum part I, Herbaria of the world (QK75 .I5 1990 Reference).  A global directory of public herbaria, associated staff and collections.  Location of collector’s collections; important collections at each of the herbaria; points to location of isotypes and dupes; use online edition at NYBG for current staff and email addresses.

• Index herbariorum Part II (1-7) QK96.R4.  Vitals on collectors; locations of significant numbers of collections.

• Nationaal Herbarium Nederland virtual herbarium.

• New York Botanical Garden Susan Fraser, “Collector’s field notebooks at the New York Botanical Garden Library” (Brittonia  48:3, July 1996, pp. 308-317)

• Oregon State University Herbarium databases

• “Register of plant collectors’ field notes held in North American institutions” (Stieber, M.T. 1982). Huntia 4(3):151-202.

• SIBIS (South Africa)

• Smithsonian Institution

• TROPICOS Exsiccatae database is a database of specimens.

• Type specimen register lists specimens in the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution

• University and Jepson Herbarium field notes (UC), Willis L. Jepson field books (digitized)

• Vascular plant types catalog, New York Botanical Garden