The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (PH)

The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, crs344@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Cite this collection:
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Occurrence dataset (ID: d71cc7dc-d5f9-488b-888f-530a04263062) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2024-03-28).
Collection Statistics
  • 61,800 specimen records
  • 32,975 (53%) georeferenced
  • 59,725 (97%) with images (60,496 total images)
  • 49,395 (80%) identified to species
  • 51 families
  • 308 genera
  • 2,335 species
  • 2,467 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
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