https://www.bryophyteportal.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=34University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - BryophytesConsortium of Bryophyte HerbariaBryophyteConsortium@gmail.comhttps://www.bryophyteportal.org/portal/index.phpConsortium of Bryophyte HerbariaBryophyteConsortium@gmail.comhttps://www.bryophyteportal.org/portal/index.php2024-03-28engThe Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Bryophytestlabedz1@unl.eduhttps://museum.unl.edu/collections/botany/index.htmlThomas Labedztlabedz1@unl.educontentProviderTo the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the 2024-03-28T04:57:49-07:00Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria - db988ed9-a610-4def-bda9-d93fb7177956UTF-8Darwin Core Archivehttps://www.bryophyteportal.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=34NEBUniversity of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Bryophyteshttps://www.bryophyteportal.org/portal/content/collicon/NEB.gifhttps://museum.unl.edu/collections/botany/index.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/Thomas Labedztlabedz1@unl.edu<p>The Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.</p>