Information for Visitors and Researchers
to the Duke
University Herbarium
Directions <> Upon arrival <> Use of the Collections <> Location of the collections
Herbarium hours are 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Arrangements may be made to use the collections outside regular hours upon consultation with the staff.
Vending machines are located in the second floor hallway of the Biological Sciences building. Food services are located in the Bryan Center and the Levine Science Research Center.
Directions
Coming from Raleigh: Take I-40W to NC 147 (Durham Freeway). Take the Hillandale exit, and turn left at the end of the off-ramp. Go all the way down Hillandale to Erwin Rd. Turn right on Erwin Rd., go through two lights and turn left at the third light (Towerview/Morreene). Go down Towerview and turn left at the first light (Science Dr.) The BioSci building is just past the camel statue, across from the parking garage. To enter the garage, continue to the entrance of the Bryan Center parking lot and enter from there.
Coming from Chapel Hill: Take US 15/501 to the Rt. 751 exit. Turn left at the end of the off-ramp and continue north, through several lights, to the light for the Washington Duke Inn on the left and Science Dr. on the right. Turn on Science Drive, go through the next light and continue down the hill... (same as above).
Parking: There is no guest parking at the Biological Sciences Building. However, there is a parking garage across from the building which is open to public (for which there is a $2 per hour charge). For less expensive alternatives please see the DUKE parking website.
Upon
arrival:
Please check with one of the Herbarium staff, who will be available to orient you. We strongly suggest that you make an appointment ahead of time to ensure that a staff member can meet you upon your arrival.
Please sign the guest book.
No smoking, food, or beverages are permitted inside the collections area.
In order to control herbarium pests, incoming specimens to the Vascular Herbarium are frozen for 48 hours or more. Users of the collection who bring specimens in with them are strongly urged to bring in material treated to ensure that it is free of pests or to contact herbarium staff ahead of time so we can freeze the collections and make them available for use upon arrival. If this is not possible, please contact a member of the herbarium staff and we will make other arrangements.
Use of the Collections:
Please
close herbarium cases when not in use.
Keep specimen folders horizontal when removing them from the cases. Keep herbarium sheets right side up; do not turn them over like pages in a book.
Material such as pollen, leaves, and wood must not be removed from herbarium specimens without prior written consent; refer to the Destructive Sampling Policy for details. Dissections or loose plant fragments should be put into packets attached to the sheet. Additional packets are available from the staff.
Visiting specialists are encouraged to annotate specimens using permanent ink on annotation labels. Pens and labels are available from the herbarium staff. Please provide the name of the investigator and date of annotation. Clip annotation labels to packets or sheets and the staff will glue them. Alternatively, leave the determinations on the top of the stack of specimens and the staff will make and attach the annotation labels.
Specimens that you wish to have sent on loan should be set aside and labeled with your name and institutional address. A formal written request for the loan must be received from the director of your herbarium before the loan will be sent.
A collection of botanical references is maintained in the main herbarium area. Please do not remove these books without notifying the staff. For long-term visitors with lab or office space in the BioSci Building, place a sign out card with your name, date and office number. Borrowed books should be returned within two weeks. Please sign out the books using the notebooks in room 265 (vascular plants) and room 373A (cryptogams).
Location of the collections:
Herbarium cases containing the vascular plants collections are located off site. The staff will be glad to assist with accessing vascular plant collection.
Families are arranged in the Englerian sequence. Within each family, the genera are sorted alphabetically. Each genus is sorted into geographical regions in color-coded folders. Within each geographic region, the species are sorted alphabetically. Unidentified specimens are filed at the end of each category.
The bryophyte, lichen and fungal collections are located in the top two levels of the herbarium in the Biological Sciences Building.
The algae collection is located in the Biological Sciences Building in room 0061a, in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Searles.
The lichen, fungi and algae collections are filed alphabetically by genus and species, with geographical divisions made when necessary. Undetermined specimens are filed at the end of each genus. The bryophyte collection is arranged phylogenetically according to Buck & Goffinet (2004), and within genera, geographically into color-coded folders for North Carolina, New World and Old World. Undetermined specimens are filed at the end of each genus.
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