University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Bryophytes
Citation
University of Nebraska State Museum (2024). University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Bryophytes. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/5usxfd accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-26.Description
The Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.Taxonomic Coverages
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Contacts
originatorConsortium of Bryophyte Herbaria
email: BryophyteConsortium@gmail.com
homepage: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/index.php
metadata author
Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria
email: BryophyteConsortium@gmail.com
homepage: https://bryophyteportal.org/portal/index.php
administrative point of contact
University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Bryophytes
email: susan.weller@unl.edu
homepage: https://museum.unl.edu/collections/botany/index.html
Susan Weller
content provider
position: Interim Contact
email: susan.weller@unl.edu