**Code**: [BKL](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124133) **Organization**: Brooklyn Botanic Garden **Location**: Bronx, New York, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 330000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1910 **Taxonomic coverage**: Cultivated plants, including those of Brooklyn Botanic Garden **Geographic coverage**: Long Island; North America **Incorporated herbaria**: Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, Long Island (New York) Historical Society. **Important collectors**: C. F. Austin, R. C. Benedict, R. Cheney, H. Dautun, T. Delendick, E. Hall, J. P. Harbour, W. H. Harvey, A. A. Heller, J. Hooper, J. Macoun, E. S. Miller, N. Pike, E. H. Quayle, C. K. Schneider, H. K. Svenson, J. Tilden, O. E. White **Notes**: Updated Apr 2015. In April 2015, BKL was transferred to The New York Botanical Garden, and it will remain there until the Science program is re-established at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, projected to be some time in the next ten years. Visitors are welcome to visit to consult BKL, but specimens will not be loaned while the collection is housed at The New York Botanical Garden. The database of regional specimens at BKL remains online at www.bbg.org. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-08-14 > [!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.