e8a25a42-f125-476c-8554-3ec21cd51a84 http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=acad-specimens E. C. Smith Herbarium (ACAD) Ruth Newell Acadia University Curator - E. C. Smith Herbarium
Wolfville Nova Scotia B4P 2R6 CA
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2018-02-05 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 To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction. 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. -74.12 -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 unkown 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 n/a Old Canadensys explorer UTF-8 HTML http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/en/resources/acad-specimens GBIF data portal UTF-8 HTML http://www.gbif.org/dataset/e8a25a42-f125-476c-8554-3ec21cd51a84 Canadensys Explorer UTF-8 HTML http://explorer.canadensys.net/occurrences/search?q=data_resource_uid:dr43#tab_mapView http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/logo.do?r=acad-specimens ACAD ACAD E. C. Smith Herbarium 1854-present mounted e8a25a42-f125-476c-8554-3ec21cd51a84/v7.1.xml