Herbariums

 

A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbarium

The Royal Horticultural Society in London, UK

https://collections.rhs.org.uk/

Emily Dickinson Herbarium at Harvard

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4184689$1i

The largest herbaria in the world (list from Wikipedia), in approximate order of decreasing size, are:

• Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P) (Paris, France)
• New York Botanical Garden (NY) (Bronx, New York, US)
• Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Royal Botanic Gardens (K) (Kew, England, UK)
• Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) (St. Louis, Missouri, US)
• Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G) (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland) (AMD, L, U, WAG) (Leiden, Netherlands)
• The Natural History Museum (BM) (London, England, UK)
• Harvard University (HUH) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)
• Museum of Natural History of Vienna (W) (Vienna, Austria)
• Swedish Museum of Natural History (S) (Stockholm, Sweden)
• United States National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution) (US) (Washington, DC, US)
• Université Montpellier (MPU) (Montpellier, France)
• Université Claude Bernard (LY) (Villeurbanne, France)
• Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae (FI) (Florence, Italy)
• National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR) (Meise, Belgium)
• University of Helsinki (H) (Helsinki, Finland)
• Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin (B) (Berlin, Germany)
• The Field Museum (F) (Chicago, Illinois, US)
• University of Copenhagen (C) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Chinese National Herbarium, (Chinese Academy of Sciences) (PE) (Beijing, People's Republic of China)
• University and Jepson Herbaria (UC/JEPS) (Berkeley, California, US)
• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (E) (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
• Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) (Bogor, West Java, Indonesia)
• Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden (Central National Herbarium (CAL), Howrah, India)
• Herbarium Hamburgense (HBG) (Hamburg, Germany)

This is mind blowing. The New York Botanical Gardens has a map of all known herbariums

https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/

Society of Herbarium Curators

https://www.herbariumcurators.org/