Day: Sunday 7/8
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Trip Leader: Michael O. Dillon
Email Address: dillon@fieldmuseum.org
Trip Limit: 15
Walking
tour
of the Field Museum's Botany Department Herbarium,
Economic Botany Collections, and Hall of Plants.
The tour begins with a visit to the Department of Botany
which manages 5th largest herbarium in the Western
Hemisphere, estimated to include 2.7 million specimens
of flowering plants, gymnosperms, ferns, bryophytes,
fungi (including lichenized ascomycetes), and algae.
The Herbarium was established in 1894 based on acquisitions
from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Over
100 years of botanical expeditions have established
the Field Museum's herbarium as one of the world's
preeminent depositories of neotropical plants. In
early
2006, the Botany Department completed a major renovation
which included the development of 14,000 sq ft of
compactorized space containing new insect-and-moisture-proof
cabinets
that run electrically on rails. The herbarium provides
collections (as loans) to researchers throughout
the World's universities and botanical research institutes.
In addition the tour will include the Museum's Economic
Botany collections and the Hall of Plant Life containing
hundreds of plant models, equally spectacular as
Harvard's
glass flowers. After the tour, participants will
be free to view other attractions in the Museum, such
as the new Evolving Planet exhibit which covers evolution
on the planet Earth. The tour will take 1.5 to 2
hours depending upon number of people.
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Walking
tour
of the Field Museum's Botany Department Herbarium,
Economic Botany Collections, and Hall of Plants.
The tour begins with a visit to the Department of Botany
which manages 5th largest herbarium in the Western
Hemisphere, estimated to include 2.7 million specimens
of flowering plants, gymnosperms, ferns, bryophytes,
fungi (including lichenized ascomycetes), and algae.
The Herbarium was established in 1894 based on acquisitions
from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Over
100 years of botanical expeditions have established
the Field Museum's herbarium as one of the world's
preeminent depositories of neotropical plants. In
early
2006, the Botany Department completed a major renovation
which included the development of 14,000 sq ft of
compactorized space containing new insect-and-moisture-proof
cabinets
that run electrically on rails. The herbarium provides
collections (as loans) to researchers throughout
the World's universities and botanical research institutes.
In addition the tour will include the Museum's Economic
Botany collections and the Hall of Plant Life containing
hundreds of plant models, equally spectacular as
Harvard's
glass flowers. After the tour, participants will
be free to view other attractions in the Museum, such
as the new Evolving Planet exhibit which covers evolution
on the planet Earth. The tour will take 1.5 to 2
hours depending upon number of people. 
