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.
Curator: Tatyana Livshultz, tl534@drexel.edu
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 019a3280-a69f-4312-bb30-8556e270f1a5
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/PH_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/f873ef66-231a-4ea3-bd4d-a16f182bf337
Collection Statistics
- 606,040 specimen records
- 284,248 (47%) georeferenced
- 596,055 (98%) with images (601,293 total images)
- 560,175 (92%) identified to species
- 445 families
- 5,632 genera
- 33,435 species
- 36,302 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
