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E. C. Smith Herbarium (ACAD)
Ruth
Newell
Acadia University
Curator - E. C. Smith Herbarium
Wolfville
Nova Scotia
B4P 2R6
CA
902-585-1335
ruth.newell@acadiau.ca
Christa
Pufahl
On sabbatical
Steve
MacNeil
IT Consultant
Wolfville
Nova Scotia
CA
steve@acadiau.ca
programmer
Jennifer
Richard
Acadia University
Consulting Librarian
Wolfville
Nova Scotia
CA
jennifer.richard@acadiau.ca
originator
Acadia University
33 Westwood Avenue
Wolfville
Nova Scotia
B4P 2R6
CA
publisher
2013-07-10
eng
Today, the E. C. Smith Herbarium contains over 200,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, and fungi. It is the largest herbarium in Atlantic Canada and the first Canadian herbarium to have a digital database with scanned images of the collection.
The Acadia Herbarium began as an initial gift to Dr. H. G. Perry of a small collection made by G. U. Hay of St. John, New Brunswick. Included in this collection were a few plants collected by J. Fowler of New Brunswick before he went to Queen's University. These first specimens were collected between 1868 and 1880. Some of the plants were cultivated and some were from the United States.
Subsequently, in these early years, the additions were made chiefly through the work of Dr. H. G. Perry and his students. No records were available until the collection numbered some 6,000 sheets. Included in the 6,000, however, are a number of sheets from the Gray Herbarium Expeditions to Nova Scotia in 1920 and 1921.
Of the specimens above the 6000 count, the majority have been added by the work of Dr. M. V. Roscoe and her students from 1928-1940 and Dr. H. P. Banks and his students from 1940-1946. In 1946 a large collection was being assembled by Mr. David Erskine, who catalogued the Flora of Wolfville and vicinity.
During Dr. E. C. Smith's tenure at Acadia (1947-1971) the number of specimens grew from 20,000 sheets to over 70,000. In 1970, Acadia University's Board of Governors announced that the department's excellent collection of plants would be named the E. C. Smith Herbarium as tribute to him for his contributions to the collection.
ACAD
E. C. Smith Herbarium
Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens
Cape Breton University
Acadia University
Canada
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Maine
Vermont
collection
herbarium
specimens
Canadensys
n/a
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ & http://www.canadensys.net/norms
http://herbarium.acadiau.ca/
Primarily the Flora of the Acadian Forest Region. However, there are smaller collections within the herbarium that stem from research initiatives across the globe.
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-59.83
46.31
42.56
This dataset includes all vascular plant specimens from the E. C. Smith Herbarium and Cape Breton University teaching collection that have been digitized, databased and geo-referenced. The top 3 families are Cyperaceae (11%), Asteraceae (10%) and Poaceae (8%).
kingdom
Plantae
Plants
class
Equisetopsida
Vascular plants
family
Cyperaceae
Sedges
family
Asteraceae
Sunflowers
family
Poaceae
Grasses
Rodger
Evans
Acadia University
Director - E. C. Smith Herbarium
33 Westwood Avenue
Wolfville
Nova Scotia
B4P 2R6
CA
902-585-1710
rodger.evans@acadiau.ca
http://herbarium.acadiau.ca/
Data are entered into the main database through in-house software, some of which is verified electronically (e.g. all taxonomic data using ITIS).
Digitization of Vascular plants from the E. C. Smith Herbarium with a focus on plants of the Acadian Forest Region.
All data are manually digitized as text from high resolution scans of each herbarium specimen.
Records are corrected on an ad hoc basis.
E. C. Smith Herbarium Digital Repository
Rodger
Evans
pointOfContact
Various; CFI
2012-02-12T10:58:21.432-05:00
dataset
Canadensys explorer
UTF-8
HTML
http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/d/acad-specimens
GBIF data portal
UTF-8
HTML
http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14027/
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ACAD
ACAD
E. C. Smith Herbarium
1854-present
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