**Code**: [BISH](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124058) **Organization**: Bishop Museum **Department**: Department of Natural Sciences **Location**: Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 750000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1908 **Geographic coverage**: Pacific, especially Hawaiian Islands; French Polynesia and Fiji; Malesia, especially Papua New Guinea and the Philippines; Micronesia; Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands; Australia; Sri Lanka **Incorporated herbaria**: Combined herbaria of University of Hawaii and Board of Agriculture and Forestry in 1922, Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association in 1957, Brigham Young University, Laie herbarium in 1989, Maxwell S. Doty herbarium and library in 1994, William J. Hoe bryophyte herbarium in 1998, Dept Land and Natural Resources/Endangered Species Program herbarium in 1999, University of Hawaii, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources herbarium in 2001, Isabella A. Abbott algal herbarium in 2002. **Important collectors**: I. A. Abbott, A. Bernatowicz, L. J. Brass, W. T. Brigham, E. L. Caum, E. Christophersen, P. A. Cox, E. Y. Dawson, O. Degener, M. S. Doty, A. D. E. Elmer, U. J. Faurie, J. Florence, C. N. Forbes, F. R. Fosberg, M. L. Grant, B. Harrison Gagné, S. Hatusima, A. A. Heller, D. R. Herbst, W. Hillebrand, W. J. Hoe, G. J. Hollenburg, L. Horowitz, T. Hosokawa, M. D. Hoyle, K. Kadohiro, S. F. Kajewski, R. Kanehira, G. T. Kraft, H. Kylin, J. Lau, M. Littler, M. L. Lohman, D. H. Lorence, H. L. Lyon, H. Mann, E. G. Menez, E. D. Merrill, G. C. Monroe, K. Nagata, J. W. Newhouse, S. Perlman, J. Remy, J. F. C. Rock, R. Schlecter, A. C. Smith, S. H. Sohmer, H. St. John, L. Stemmermann, B. C. Stone, R. D. Svihla, W. A. Takeuchi, J. Tanaka, F. Vaupel, W. A. Whistler, H. E. Womersley, K. R. Wood, D. Yen, T. G. Yuncker **Notes**: Updated Jan 2017 (website URL updated). Private institution (designated the State Museum of Natural and Cultural History in 1992 and the Hawaii Biological Survey in the same year). **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-02-06 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.