The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (PH)
The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, crs344@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Cite this collection:
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Occurrence dataset (ID: d71cc7dc-d5f9-488b-888f-530a04263062) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2024-05-01).
Collection Statistics
- 61,800 specimen records
- 32,987 (53%) georeferenced
- 59,724 (97%) with images (60,516 total images)
- 49,423 (80%) identified to species
- 52 families
- 308 genera
- 2,351 species
- 2,483 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
The PCC, and this data portal, were made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation’s
Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) program, grant numbers
1802504,
1802352,
1802134,
1802033,
1802270,
1802255,
1802239,
1802446,
1802305.
The pteridoportal taxonomic thesaurus is based on the
Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, generously provided by Michael Hassler.