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Donald Pfister honored for work with fungi: The Northeast Mycological Federation (NEMF) presented him with the Amicus Tironum Award
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30 new plant species uncovered in the Hengduan Mountains, China. David Boufford began collecting in the region in the mid-1990s (Staff photo Jill Foley/Havard News Office)
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- The Harvard University Herbaria, with more than
5 million specimens, are one of the 10 largest Herbaria in the world in number of specimens, and along with the library, form the world's largest university owned herbarium.
Herbaria Highlights
A collection of botanical pith paintings acquired by Charles Sprague Sargent, and currently housed in the
archives of the Botany Libraries, was featured in Harvard Magazine
and are currently part of an online exhibition
arranged by Lisa DeCesare.