The Dalai Lama planted a birch tree in Harvard Yard, a hybrid of Eastern and Western varieties, created especially for the occasion
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(photo by Peter Del Tredici)
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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 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.
On display now in the Farlow Herbarium: Many factors cause herbaria specimens to deteriorate and
important information to be lost. This exhibit closely examines these issues and
what the staff of HUH are doing to protect their collections.