The Dudley Herbarium was the herbarium or plant specimen collection of the Stanford University Natural History Museum and the former Division of

Systematic Biology Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic tr ...

of the Department of Biology, at Stanford University in

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.The Dudley Herbarium, Including a case study of Terman’s restructuring of the biology department, Sara Timby, Sandstone and Tile, 1998

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History

The collection was started by botanist William Russell Dudley (1849−1911), the head of the Stanford Botany Department from 1892 to 1911.Makers of American Botany,

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, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435

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became curator in 1920. In the early 1960s, Stanford Provost

Frederick E. Terman Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is widel ...

made a decision to terminate support for the Division of Systematic Biology. Subsequently, various subcollections were transferred to other institutions in 1968 (algae to the

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, fungi to the

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) The main vascular plant collection was eventually transferred (by long-term loan), along with Stanford's Natural History Museum fish collections, to the

California Academy of Sciences The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. The Academy began in 1853 ...

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. In 1976, the Dudley Herbarium had 850,000-specimens, which were merged with the 600,000 specimens of the California Academy Herbarium, on completion of what was at the time a state-of-the-art facility to house the collections and staff, funded mostly by a grant from the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

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