**Code**: [NY](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125525) **Organization**: The New York Botanical Garden **Location**: Bronx, New York, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 7921000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1891 **Taxonomic coverage**: Algae, bryophytes, fungi, pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide with greatest strength in tropical America and North America **Incorporated herbaria**: Columbia University (600 000 specimens) in 1895, Barnard College (18 000 specimens) in 1901, Columbia College of Pharmacy in 1945, Princeton University (48 000 specimens) in 1945, Torrey Botanical Club in 1973, WECO (10 700 specimens) in 1982, Ecological Herbarium, Mammal Department, American Museum of Natural History (632 specimens) in 1982, SEFES (3750 specimens), part of DH (3470 specimens) in 1983, Hamilton College (6200 specimens) in 1983, DPU (127 119 specimens) in 1987, WAB (17 442 specimens) in 1987, WELC (63 464 specimens) in 1988, part of GESU, part of BROC (tropical specimens) in 1989, part of Gettysburg College (555 historical specimens) in 1993, Cotton Branch, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, College Station, Texas (19 918 specimens) in 1993, Herb Society of America, New York Unit (516 specimens) in 1996, Mianus River Gorge Preserve (246 specimens) in 1996, bryophytes of DS (4580 arctic and New York specimens) in 1968, bryophytes of KANU (4402 specimens) in 1969, bryophytes of FSU (8158 specimens) in 1973, fungi and algae of CM (41 905 specimens) in 1981, fungi of UT (6479 specimens) in 1982, fungi of MASS (30 632 specimens) in 1989, fungi of TEX (1116 specimens) in 1990, fungi of KIRI (211 specimens) in 1995, fungi of KSC (17 000 specimens) in 1997, fungi of NO (10 000 specimens) in 2000, fungi of CAS (ca. 3000) in 2002, Kohlmeyer herbarium of marine fungi (ca. 20,000 specimens) in 2009, fungi of VPI (extra-regional only, ca. 25,000 specimens, 2012), L. Biechele (lichens and bryophytes of Delmarva Penninsula, 400, 2010), E. Lay (Lichens of eastern U.S., especially New England, 17000 in 2010) **Important collectors**: E. J. Alexander, J. A. Allen, G. P. Anderson, C. F. Austin, C. F. Baker, M. Bang, H. J. Banker, R. C. Barneby, J. H. Barnhart, M. E. Barr, J. Barratt, E. Bartholomew, J. C. Beatley, A. R. Bechtel, E. A. Bessey, G. N. Best, E. P. Bicknell, L. Biechele, H. E. Bigelow, A. O. Black, B. M. Boom, R. S. Breen, N. L. Britton, E. G. Britton, W. R. Buck, S. B. Buckley, G. S. Burlingham, W. W. Calkins, W. H. Camp, W. M. Canby, A. W. Chapman, A. H. Chivers, J. H. Christ, S. P. Churchill, F. E. Clements, F. S. Collins, J. M. Coulter, R. S. Cowan, L. Croizat, A. Cronquist, J. M. Cruxent, C. E. Cummings, A. H. Curtiss, D. C. Daly, S. Damon, C. C. Deam, I. Degener, O. Degener, H. M. Denslow, J. P. Dey, A. Ducke, K. P. Dumont, F. S. Earle, W. W. Eggleston, J. B. Ellis, A. D. E. Elmer, C. E. Fairman, H. Fleming, M. Fleming, S. Flowers, J. C. Frémont, P. A. Fryxell, A. O. Garrett, L. J. Gier, H. A. Gleason, R. D. Goos, R. Hagelstein, R. E. Halling, I. M. Haring, R. A. Harper, R. C. Harris, H. E. Hasse, R. L. Hauke, C. C. Haynes, A. A. Heller, L. K. Henry, G. B. Hinton, M. Hitchcock, N. H. Holmgren, G. E. Howard, M. A. Howe, H. S. Irwin, A. Jaeger, E. James, G. S. Jenman, O. E. Jennings, G. T. Johnson, J. Kallunki, C. H. Kauffman, D. D. Keck, E. P. Killip, M. B. Knauz, B. Kohlmeyer, J. Kohlmeyer, C. L. Kramer, B. A. Krukoff, C. E. O. Kuntze, D. Largent, E. Lay, W. H. Leggett, W. A. Leighton, J. Lendemer, P. V. LeRoy, C. L. Lesquereux, A. H. Liogier, J. L. Luteyn, D. T. MacDougal, K. K. Mackenzie, B. Maguire, G. E. Massee, C. J. I. Maximowicz, A. J. McClatchie, C. F. Meisner, E. D. Merrill, J. T. Mickel, O. K. Miller, N. Miller, W. Mitten, H. N. Moldenke, S. A. Mori, T. Morong, W. A. Murrill, G. V. Nash, M. Nee, P. J. O'Gara, A. M. Ottley, E. Palmer, P. M. Patterson, C. H. Peck, P. Pedraza, F. W. Pennell, N. Pike, G. T. Prance, C. G. Pringle, C. F. Reed, H. M. Richards, J. F. C. Rock, C. T. Rogerson, H. H. Rusby, P. A. Rydberg, H. P. Sartwell, A. Schneider, F. J. Seaver, J. A. Shafer, C. L. Shear, C. A. Shurtleff, J. K. Small, H. H. Smith, G. L. Smith, A. C. Smith, R. Spruce, H. Stansbury, F. W. Starmer, W. C. Steere, J. Steinbach, A. B. Stout, W. C. Sturgis, D. R. Sumstine, G. H. H. Tate, G. Tessmann, H. D. Thiers, W. W. Thomas, A. Tiehm, J. Torrey, R. Torrey, F. Tweedy, W. Uggla, L. M. Underwood, A. M. Vail, A. Vigener, S. Watson, W. H. Welch, A. Welden, H. Whittier, H. O. Whittier, L. Williams, R. S. Williams, P. Wilson, A. Wood, R. D. Wood, E. G. Worthley, C. Wright, J. J. Wurdack, T. G. Yuncker, T. Zanoni, S. M. Zeller, G. L. I. Zundel **Notes**: NY diatoms transferred to CAS in 2002. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Herbarium (BKL, ca. 350,000 specimens) is maintained separately, but is available for consultation and loans. Botanical library available to all researchers. Library includes over 260 400 volumes (105 000 book and monograph titles and nearly 11 000 serial titles), 125 000 reprints, collections of archives and manuscripts, seed catalogs and index semina, photographs, botanical art, and artifacts. The Library on-line catalog, is accessible at: http://library.nybg.org. Services include interlibrary loan, photocopying, photography, CD-ROM database searches, and literature searches. Most services are for a fee. The Library is the repository for the Taxonomic Literature II (Stafleu and Cowan) data files and for the archives of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Mycological Society of America, Organization for Flora Neotropica, Society for Economic Botany, Torrey Botanical Society, and others. **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.