Dudley Herbarium

The Dudley Herbarium was the plant collection of Stanford University' Natural History Museum and former Division of Systematic Biology of the Department of Biology. The collection was started by William Russell Dudley. In the early 1960s, Stanford Provost Frederick E. Terman made a decision to terminate support for the Division of Systematic Biology. The collection was eventually transferred (by long-term loan), along with Stanford’s Natural History Museum fish collections, to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. In 1976, the Dudley herbarium had 850,000-specimens, which were merged with the 600,000 specimens of the California Academy Herbarium, on completion of what was at the time a state-of-the-art facility to house the collections and staff, funded mostly by a grant from the National Science Foundation.