Two million and counting: NYBG digitization project reaches major milestone
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 08:30
in Earth & Climate
Marking a milestone achievement in the global effort to make scientific collections widely available online, The New York Botanical Garden recently added the two-millionth plant specimen to its digital research collection, part of an ambitious project to digitize the 7.3 million dried plant specimens in its William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, the largest herbarium in the Western hemisphere.