Institution code US

Smithsonian Institution

naturalhistory.si.edu

United States of AmericaWashington

4,340,000 specimens

Description

Updated May 2013 (new correspondent). All loan requests should be directed to USNH@si.edu. US fungi transferred to BPI. US has collections from U.S. South Pacific Exploring Expedition (1838-1842), U.S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition (1853-1856), LaPlata Expedition (1853-1856), Mexican Boundary Survey (1854-1855), California Geological Survey (1860-1867), International Boundary Commission: U.S. and Mexico (1892-1894), Colombia missions (1940-1945), Bureau of Science (Philippines), Harriman Alaskan Expedition, and Regnell Expeditions (Brazil). All groups (except fungi) worldwide with emphasis on neotropics, North America, Pacific Islands, Philippines, and Indian subcontinent.

Code

Number of specimens in institution

4,340,000

Institutional disciplines

No information

Founding date

1848

Institution Type

Unknown

Institutional governance

Unknown

Collections

Name	Code	Description	Specimens
U.S. National Parasite Collection	USNPC	Department of Invertebrate Zoology \| National Museum of Natural History \| Smithsonian InstitutionSince its founding in 1892, the U.S. National Parasite Collection has been of vital importance to parasitology and has been under the care of scientists and curators of the Agricultural Research Service ...	20,000,000
Herbarium - Smithsonian Institution	US	Plants, algae, lichens, diatoms Global. All groups (except fungi)	5,100,000
Herbarium - Smithsonian Institution Inactive	USNC		0