sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!
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know what isnt going extinct? shitty deans. they deserve to tho
https://gggp.org/san-francisco-botanical-garden/
https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/
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On their Website they have a Statement on Taxidermy disposal and encourage anyone to reach out to them in such cases..
They are the shame of all universities!
Princeton DID donate its fossil collections to Yale around 20 years ago, but not sure how that was negotiated...
"The facility, which has been instrumental in studying plant diversity and evolution for over 180 years, is set to close due to budget cuts and a decline in staff."
There's been a push to try to find space for things, but I haven't heard anything about the whole herbarium just being ditched.
Dr. Susan Alberts
Dean of Natural Sciences
The Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University [email protected]
Dr. Emily Bernhardt
Chair, Department of Biology
Duke University
[email protected]
Future generations in critical times: what’s all this crap doing here? We could have a swimming pool!
What a monumental loss to them.
"This collection does not make money for us." Is the translation. So sad.