Incorporation of the DePauw University and Wabash College Herbaria into the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium

随着许多规模较小的大学和学院的优先事项发生变化，包含重要研究收藏品（包括许多类型和其他历史材料）的植物标本室对该机构不再有用。拯救这些孤家寡人的标本，使它们的重要研究资料可供全世界的分类学研究使用，已成为我国大型植物标本馆的责任。两个这样的植物标本馆刚刚被转移到纽约植物园。其中之一是德波大学的Truman G. Yuncker标本馆，包含约135,000个标本，其中包括Truman F. Yuncker（胡椒科和cuscucutacae科的世界权威）和Winona J. Welch （Fontinalaceae和Hookeriaceae的世界权威）的重要研究藏品。另一个是沃巴什学院植物标本馆，包含大约20,000个标本，其中包括约翰·m·库尔特（以其对落基山脉植物群的研究而闻名）和19世纪70年代海登落基山脉地质调查局的藏品。该项目将提供资金，聘请两名临时策展助理处理标本，并将其纳入花园的植物标本室。

As priorities change at many smaller universities and colleges, herbaria containing important research collections, including many types and other historical material, are no longer useful to the institution. It becomes the responsibility of the nation's large herbaria to rescue these orphaned collections and make their important research material available for taxonomic research throughout the world. Two such herbaria have just been transferred to the New York Botanical Garden. One of these, the Truman G. Yuncker Herbarium of DePauw University, contains ca 135,000 specimens, including the important research collections of Truman F. Yuncker (world authority of Piperaceae and Cuscutaceae) and Winona J. Welch (world authority on Fontinalaceae and Hookeriaceae). The other, the Wabash College Herbarium, contains ca 20,000 specimens, including the collections of John M. Coulter (well known for his work on the Rocky Mountain flora) and the Hayden Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountains in the 1870s. This project will provide funds to hire two temporary curatorial assistants to process the specimens and incorporate them into the Garden's Herbarium.