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.

Curator: Tatyana Livshultz, tl534@drexel.edu
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 019a3280-a69f-4312-bb30-8556e270f1a5
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 588,500 specimen records
  • 278,662 (47%) georeferenced
  • 575,595 (98%) with images (579,935 total images)
  • 539,916 (92%) identified to species
  • 415 families
  • 5,150 genera
  • 28,525 species
  • 30,542 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Nova Scotia
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  • Annapolis (31)
  • Antigonish (1)
  • Barnstable (1)
  • Cape Berton (1)
  • Cape Breton (15)
  • Colchester (9)
  • Cumberland (6)
  • Digby (66)
  • Halifax (20)
  • Hants (27)
  • Inverness (6)
  • Luneburg (1)
  • Lunenberg (2)
  • Lunenburg (22)
  • Pictou (1)
  • Queens (28)
  • Richmond (2)
  • Shelbourne (1)
  • Shelburne (52)
  • Unknown (2)
  • Varmouth (1)
  • Victoria (23)
  • Yarmouth (233)