- **Between December 4th and January 8th, the curatorial staff will be accepting requests, but will not be sending out shipments due to the holiday season.
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- The Harvard University Herbaria, with more than
5 million specimens, are one of the 10 largest Herbaria in the world in number of specimens, and along with the library, form the world's largest university owned herbarium.
Herbaria Highlights
The staff at the Botany Libraries have prepared three exhibits: Festive Fungi, Holidays on Spice, and Christmas Greens,
featuring breathtaking specimens and information from all five of our collections. On display now in the Farlow.
A collection of botanical pith paintings acquired by Charles Sprague Sargent, and currently housed in the
archives of the Botany Libraries, was featured in Harvard Magazine
and are currently part of an online exhibition
arranged by Lisa DeCesare.