Dudley Herbarium

The Dudley Herbarium was the plant collection of Stanford University' Natural History Museum and former Division of Systematic Biology of the Department of Biology.[1] The collection was started by William Russell Dudley.[2]:70–1 In the early 1960s, Stanford Provost Frederick E. Terman made a decision to terminate support for the Division of Systematic Biology.[1] The collection was eventually transferred (by long-term loan), along with Stanford’s Natural History Museum fish collections, to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.[1] In 1976, the Dudley herbarium had 850,000-specimens, which were merged with the 600,000 specimens of the California Academy Herbarium, on completion of what was at the time a state-of-the-art facility to house the collections and staff, funded mostly by a grant from the National Science Foundation.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Dudley Herbarium, Including a case study of Terman’s restructuring of the biology department, Sara Timby, Sandstone and Tile, 1998,
  2. ↑ Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435


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