Index Xylariorum 4
(Updated 26th March 2010)
Compiled by Anna H. Lynch and Peter E. Gasson
SUCURSAL: Museo
Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "B. Rivadavia" e Instituto Nacional
de Investigacion de las Ciencias Naturales, (BAw), Avda. Angel Gallardo 470, Casilla de Coreo 220,
Sucursal 5, 1405
Foundation: 1947.
Curator: Prof. CARLOS ALEJANDRO NOVERTO (comparative
anatomy of angiosperms, especially wood anatomy).
Collection: 940 specimens, 220 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 100,000; 92% of wood specimens vouchered.
Periodical or serial publications: Revista de Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'B. Rivadavia' e Instituto Nacional de Investigacion de las Ciencias Naturales.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes.
Exchange: Yes. Wanted: Woods from
Catalogue: A catalogue of the wood collection is available on request from the curator.
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TUCUMAN: Xiloteca of
the Herbarium of the Fundation Miguel Lillo (LILw), Foundation Miguel Lillo -
Institut Miguel Lillo, (LILw), Miguel
Lillo 251,
Foundation: 1910.
Curator: MARIA EUGENIA GUANTAY, Lic. Ciencias Biologicas (anatomy of wood of Myrtaceae), megnty@cs.nat.unt.edu.ar.
Collection: 1,319 specimens, 224 genera.
Specialisation: northwestern and northeastern
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 189 specimens; about 15% associated with the wood collection.
Important collections: Important collections of Venturi, S., Schreiter, Pierotti, Bertoni, Morel, Huidobro, Schwarz.
Periodical or serial publications: Lilloa, Miscelanea, Opera Lilloana, Conservacion de la Naturaleza.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; of 100 specimens; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Northeastern, central and
south
Catalogue: Yes, in hard copy and computer database.
Remarks: the wood collection was started by Dr. Miguel Lillo. The Phanerogamic Herbarium of the Foundation Miguel Lillo has 720,000 specimens.
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Foundation: Early 1900s.
Curator: ROBERT BOARDMAN, Principal Research Officer
(silviculture).
Staff members: DAVID B. BOOMSMA, Senior Research Officer (silviculture).
Collection: Over 1,000 specimens, over 150 genera.
Specialisation: Australian native commercial species,
Papua-New Guinea native species, principal commercial species imported into
Herbarium vouchers: For native Eucalyptus of
Important collections: Desch's "Principal
commercial species of the world"; New York State College of Environmental
Science and Forestry,
Samples for sectioning: Yes, Only South Australian native species and exotic species of Pinus grown in plantations.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Eucalyptus,
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BEECROFT: Wood
Technology & Forest Research Division, Forestry Commission of New South
Wales, (SFCw), P.O.
Box 100, Beecroft, N.S.W., Australia.
(outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1881.
Curator: Mr. ANTHONY P. WILKINS, Research Officer
(identification of timbers, growth stress, general wood structure).
Staff members: Dr. JOHN F. WILKES, Research Officer (identification of timbers, wood properties of radiata pine, general wood structure).
Collection: 12,454 specimens, 1,380 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 75% of general collection; 99% of Acacia collection.
Important collections: C.E. Lane-Poole's (
Periodical or serial publications: Wood Catalogue published four times yearly.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 8,000 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Acacia spp., most Australian species. Wanted:
Catalogue: Wood Catalogue published four times yearly.
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Foundation: 1922.
Collection: 4,500 specimens, 200 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Most specimens are based on
botanical material identified by Government Botanist who keeps his own
herbarium, together with a small herbarium of our own.
Important collections: F.M. Bailey (
Samples for sectioning: Yes, application should be made to the Secretary, Department of Forestry.
Microscope slides: Yes; Slides not for loan.
Exchange: Yes, application should be made to the
Secretary, Department of Forestry. Available:
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Foundation: 1880.
Curator: Dr. R.W. JOHNSON, Director,
Staff members: Mr. T.D. STANLEY, Senior Botanist.
Collection: 2,300 specimens.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 470,000; 75%.
Important collections:
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
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Foundation: 1954.
Curator: Dr. BRYAN BARLOW.
Collection: About 5,000 specimens, about 400 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes (CANB); 360,000; 97%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 350 slides; Slides for loan.
Remarks: Owing to staffing difficulties, expansion and
update of the
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CLAYTON
SOUTH: CSIRO, (FPAw), -
Forestry and
Foundation: 1929.
Curator: Dr. JUGO ILIC (wood anatomy, wood quality, wood structure/properties relationships and non-destructive testing), jugo.ilic@csiro.au.
Staff members: Ms. SHAREE HARPER (wood quality, SilviScan: x-ray densitometry and diffraction services), sharee.harper@csiro.au.
Collection: 47,720 specimens, 2,237 genera.
Specialisation: Specialisation Malesia and South west
Pacific area, particularly
Herbarium vouchers: No; Some records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; about 80%
Important collections: CSIRO Land Research collections (New Guinea); New Guinea Forests collections (NGF, Sc, Sa, Cr, etc); BW series (West Irian); Lane-Poole (New Guinea); Desch (Malaya); A.C. Smith (Fiji); British Solomon Island Collections; B. Maguire (Venezuela); Stern and Chambers (Panama); Stern and Brizicky (Florida Keys); Sabah, New Caledonia, and China (Forest Research Institute - Guangdong Province).
Periodical or serial publications: Publish in Australian Journal of Botany (older publications), IAWA Journal.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, but limited.
Microscope slides: Yes; 18,700 slides; Slides for
loan, very limited number; Slides for
exchange, mainly
Exchange: Yes. Available: Mainly
Catalogue: Original log books, index cards and computer database.
Remarks: Checklist of species covered by the collection is no longer current, computer index will be made available and if resources allow, a Web based database will be posted.
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VIENNA: Abteilung fur
Biologische Holzforschung an der Forstlichen Bundesversuchsanstalt, (VFw), Hauptstrasse 7, A 1140 Wien, Austria. (outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1960.
Curator: Dr. HELMUT KREMPL (European and commercial
timbers from overseas).
Staff members: Ing. EDMUND PAUSCH (wood anatomy).
Collection: 1,466 specimens, 636 genera.
Specialisation: European and commercial timbers from overseas.
Herbarium vouchers: All Austrian and European samples
in the collection are associated with vouchers deposited in the herbarium of
the
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 60 slides; Slides not for
loan, but assistance in special cases is possible.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: A wood collection of approximately 300
species, especially from
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Foundation: 1960.
Collection: about 1,400 specimens, about 960 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 2,000; about 80% of the indigenous species.
Important collections:
Periodical or serial publications: Bana Biggyan (Forestry Science).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; over 500 slides; Slides for loan, as a special case.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
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TERVUREN: Tervuren
Xylarium,
Foundation: 1898.
Curator: Dr. Ir.
Staff members: WIM TAVERNIER, Collection and Database Manager, wim.tavernier@africamuseum.be.
Collection: 61,003 specimens, 3,510 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, herbarium vouchers associated with xylarium specimens are deposited at the National Herbarium of Belgium (BR) in Meise.; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 30%.
Website address: www.metafro.be/xylarium.
Periodical or serial publications: There is no periodical, but the institution regularly publishes books on wood, tree and forests topics.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, in exchange for sectioning cubes, thin sections are expected to be given to the collection.
Microscope slides: Yes; 16, 844 sets of slides; Slides not for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: Yes, computer database and internet site.
Remarks: In order to study growth and structure of tropical trees, a collection of stem discs from tropical Africa is being established.
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BELEM: Walter
Alberto Egler Wood Collection, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi - Campus de
Pesquisa, Departamento de Botanica, (MGw), Av. Tancredo Neves, 1901, Terra Firme,
Foundation: 1959.
Curator: PEDRO LUIZ BRAGA LISBOA, D.Sc. (anatomy and identification of tropical wood, ethnobotany - use of natural resources by traditional communities), plisboa@museu-goeldi.br.
Staff members: CLAUDIA VIANA URBINATI, M.Sc. (anatomy and identification of tropical wood, ethnobotany - use of natural resources by traditional communities), urbinati@museu-goeldi.br, xiloteca@museu-goeldi.br.
Collection: 7,305 specimens, 652 genera in 97 families.
Specialisation: 88.75% of the samples in the
collection are from the Brazilian Amazon, of this percentage, 54.31% from the
State of
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; About 2,700 samples also possess vouchers in the Joao Murca Pires herbarium of the Museum.; At least 37% is vouchered.
Important collections: Amazonian species.
Website address: www.museu-goeldi.br.
Periodical or serial publications: An article on the Xiloteca of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, is being published in the Bulletin of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Serie Botanica.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,000 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Amazon. Wanted: Amazon.
Catalogue: Information on the collection will be published on the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi website (www.museu-goeldi.br) in English and Portuguese in 2004. There will be a database for identification of 500 tropical species, which have supporting herbarium material, accessible by password.
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BENTO
GONCALVES: Universidade de Caxias do Sul, (UCAXw), Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Campus Universitario da
Regiao dos Vinhedos, Alameda Joao Dal Sasso, 800, 95700-000,Bento Goncalves, Rio Grande do Sul - RS, Brazil. (updated
Foundation: 2001.
Curator: LIANE TEREZIHA DORNELES, PhD (biology of plants and trees), lianetd@hotmail.com, ltdornel@ucs.br.
Staff members: ELTON LUIS MARTINS DE BARROS, (specialist in wood processing), eltonlmb@terra.com.br.
Collection: 140 specimens, 97 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 19,885; Yes, part is in herbarium at this University and records for the rest are maintained.; 40%
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 40 slides; Slides for loan, some on a limited basis; Slides for exchange, but few.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Mainly family Fabaceae and Caesalpiniaceae. Wanted: All.
Catalogue: Yes, on paper and an internet site is in preparation.
Remarks: Some digital photos of the wood are available.
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BOTUCATU: Botucatu Wood
Collection "Profa. Dra. Maria Aparecida Mourao Brasil", Universidade Estadual
Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) Sao Paulo State University, (BOTw), Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho
(UNESP) Sao Paulo State University, Faculdade de Ciencias Agronomicas
(FCA)/Faculty of Agronomical Sciences, Departamento de Recursos
Naturais/Ciencias Florestais (DRN/CF)/Environmental Resources Department/Forest
Sciences, Fazenda Experimental Lageado, s/n.
Foundation: Inaugurated on
Curator: Prof. Dr. CARMEN REGINA MARCATI, Curator (wood anatomy), carmen@fca.unesp.br.
Collection: 1,,185 specimens, 567 genera.
Specialisation: As this wood collection consists mainly of donations, we have woods from all over the world. Despite this, we have a good selection of Brazilian woods.
Herbarium vouchers: The vouchers of the species we have collected in Brazilian cerrado (since 2004) are in the BOTU Herbarium. The other wood samples (the majority) came from other Institutions and the corresponding vouchers are therefore in the Herbarium of these Institutions.; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; Around 70%.
Important collections: Brazilian cerrado woody species.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: No. We still didn't have time to do
it.
Exchange: We have some samples from cerrado species for exchange. Available: Cerrado wood species. Wanted: We accept wood samples from all over the world.
Catalogue: Yes, computer database.
Remarks: This wood collection is mainly composed of
samples from wood collection donations:
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Foundation: 1977.
Curator: Dra.
Staff members: JOSE ARLETE ALVES CAMARGOS, M.Sc., Technologist (wood identification, wood colorimetry), Camargos@lpf.ibama.gov.br.
Collection: 4,500 specimens, 740 genera.
Specialisation: Most material is from Amazonian
forest. Also material from Cerrado,
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 1,500; Herbarium vouchers associated with our wood collection are in the main herbaria of Amazon - Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi MG; Empresa Brasileira de pesquisa Agropecuaria IAN and Instituto de Pesquisas da Amazonia INPA.; 80%
Important collections: Collection of
Collection of
Collection of Oriental
Periodical or serial publications: Brasil Florestal. Technological data are published in specific books edited by IBAMA.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 4,000 slides; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: Wood collection data are in an Access database.
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ILHEUS: Xiloteca,
CEPEC Herbarium, Divisao de Botanica, Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau, (CEPECw),
Foundation: 1965.
Curator: LUIZ ALBERTO MATTOS SILVA, Biologist
(ecology, taxonomy).
Collection: 500 specimens.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 50; 10%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
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ITAJAI: Herbario
"Barbosa Rodrigues", (HBRw), Itajai,
Foundation: 1956.
Collection: 298 specimens, 187 genera.
Specialisation: Vascular plants of the State of
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 100%.
Important collections: R. Reitz & R. Klein (
Periodical or serial publications: Sellowia; Flora Illustrada Catarinense.
Microscope slides: Yes; 41 slides.
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LINHARES: Reserva
Florestal da CVRD, (CVRDw), Caixa
Postal 91, 29,900 Linhares, ES,
Foundation: 1985.
Curator:
Staff members:
Collection: 400 specimens, 232 genera.
Specialisation: Trees of the Atlantic forest in the Reserva Florestal da CVRD.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 1,670 specimens; 100%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
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Foundation: 1954.
Curator: ARTHUR ARAUJO LOUREIRO (anatomy of wood).
Staff members: FRANCISCO JOSE DE VASCONCELLOS; JORGE ALVES DE FREITAS; KATIA BASTOS LOUREIRO; DARLINDA MARIA BASTOS GONCALVES; MANOEL MOACIR PEREIRA SENA; ADENAUWER FERREIRA GOES.
Collection: 10,120 specimens, 800 genera.
Specialisation: Brazilian. Peruvian, Colombian, and
Venezuelan Amazon regions,
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 7,000 species; 70%.
Periodical or serial publications: Acta Amazonica, Boletim Informativo do CPPF/INPA.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,000 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Brazilian Amazon region.
Remarks: A collection of macro- and microphotographs and microslides associated with the wood collection are all available for exchange with other institutions.
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MANAUS: Departamento
de Madeira, Instituto de Tecnologia do Amazonia/UTAM, (ITAw), Avenida Darcy Vargas 1,200-Parque Dez C.E.P., 69,000
Foundation: 1978.
Curator: ADEMIR CASTROE SILVA (wood anatomy).
Staff members: NARCISO DA SILVA CARDOSO (wood anatomy); ROSA MARIA GONCALVES VIANEZ, Technician.
Collection: 931 specimens, 263 genera.
Specialisation: Amazon region.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 2,692; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 15%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 537 slides; Slides not for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Brazilian Amazon region.
Wanted:
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MONTE
DOURADO: Herbario e Xiloteca Jari, JARI-Companhia Florestal
Monte Dourado, Superintendencia de Pesquisa Florestal, (JARIw), 68,240 Monte Dourado,
Foundation: 1978.
Curator: MARIA JOAQUINA PINHEIRO PIRES, Research
Coordinator (plant systematics).
Staff members: NILO TOMAZ DA SILVA, Researcher (floristics and dendrology).
Collection: 800 specimens, 230 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 2,000; 95%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Exchange: Some. Available: Lower Amazon. Wanted: Tropics of New and Old Worlds.
Remarks: The JARI herbarium was established in 1986 although vouchers for the wood collection have been kept since 1978.
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PIRACICABA: Laboratorio
de Anatomia e Identificacao de Madeiras, Curso de Engenharia Florestal, Escola
Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de Sao Paulo, (ESAw), P.O. Box 09, 13418-900, Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (updated
Foundation: 1972.
Curator: Prof. Dr. MARIO TOMAZELLO Fo., Curator (wood anatomy and identification, tree-ring analysis), mtomazel@esalq.usp.br.
Staff members: Biol. MARIA APARECIDA RIZZATO-BERMUDEZ, Technician Research Assistant, (wood anatomy and identification).
Collection: 1,600 specimens, 456 genera.
Specialisation: Native and introduced species of
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; Herbarium vourchers are deposited in another Department of the Faculty (Department of Botany); about 30%.
Periodical or serial publications: Scientia Forestalis.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,084 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange, just a few available.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Tropical and subtropical areas. Wanted: Tropical and subtropical areas.
Catalogue: a hard copy.
Remarks: The wood collection catalogue will be computerized in the future.
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Foundation: 1960's.
Curator: ANGELA MARIA DE MIRANDA FREITAS, Master in Botany, Temporary Custodian, Keeper of Sergio Tavares Herbarium (systematics of phanerogams), pepita.miranda@clic21.with.br.
Collection: ITEP 4,600 specimens, SUDENE 80,000 (approximately) specimens, ITEP About 90 families, SUDENE at the moment not known.
Specialisation: The majority of samples represent
plant species of northeast of
Herbarium vouchers: The ITEP and SUDENE Wood Collections have botanical material deposited in the Sergio Tavares Herbarium, however the exact number of deposited specimens associated with the Wood Collections is not known; ITEP 50%, SUDENE not known.
Periodical or serial publications: Boletim Tecnico da
Secretaria de Obras e servicos Publicos,
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: No.
Exchange: Not at present as the Wood Collections are under "provisory guardianship", and the Herbarium Keeper is busy with its specimens but exchanges may be carried out in the future.
Catalogue: No.
Remarks: In the 1960's the Superintendancy of Northeast Development (SUDENE) created the Northeast Forest Survey, forming biological collections (herbarium and wood collections) with samples from Northeast region and also other Brazilian regions in: (i) SUDENE (1 herbarium and 1 wood collection, TIPw), (ii) Technological Institute of the State of Pernambuco - ITEP (1 herbarium and 1 wood collection) and (iii) Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE (1 wood collection extinct).In the beginning, the SUDENE Wood Collection had 84,385 properly identified and catalogued wood samples, usable in studies of anatomy and systematics, education and research, for graduates and post-graduates, being, therefore, of great importance for Forest Sciences. Equally organized the ITEP Wood Collection has about 4,600 samples. Both Wood Collections have their respective Herbarium. Currently these two Wood Collections are placed at the Forest Science Department of the UFRPE, adjacent to the Sergio Tavares Herbarium. The ITEP Wood Collection is in a climatized room and in perfect conditions for use (samples and collection data). The SUDENE Wood Collection, however, now has about 80,000 samples. These samples are stored in cardboard boxes and can be reorganized as the collection data are written in original field notebooks and are in perfect order.
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Foundation: 1959.
Curator: Dr. CLAUDIA FRANCA BARROS (wood anatomy), cbarros@jbrj.gov.br.
Staff members: Ms. OSNIR MARQUETE, sub-curator; Dr. CECILIA GONCALVES Costa, (wood anatomy); Ms. NEUZA TAMAIO, (wood anatomy); Ms. MICHELINE MARCON, (wood anatomy).
Collection: 8,000 specimens, 1,100 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 1,500 vouchers associated with wood collection; 18.75%
Important collections: Krukoff's Brazilian woods, Flora de Santa Catarina.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 2,000 specimens with slides, 30,000 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Amazon,
Catalogue: Yes, Computer database available on internet site www.jbrj.gov.br.
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SAO PAULO: Xiloteca Dr.
Calvino Mainieri, Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo
S.A. -
Foundation: 1928.
Curator: GERALDO JOSÉ ZENID, M.Sc., Biologist, Researcher (wood identification and sawnwood quality control), zenid@ipt.br.
Staff members: MARIA JOSÉ DE A. C. MIRANDA, M.Sc., Wood Science and Technology, Researcher, (wood identification and sawnwood quality control), mmiranda@ipt.br; RAPHAEL JAQUIER BOSSLER PIGOZZO, Biologist, Assistant Researcher (wood identification), rpigozzo@ipt.br.
Collection: 17,450 specimens, 1,085 genera.
Specialisation: Brazilian woods with special emphasis on commercial species.
Herbarium vouchers: No; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 5%
Important collections: J. Murca Pires, Museu Paraense
"Emilio Goeldi", Belém, Pará; William Rodrigues, INPA, Manaus,
Amazonas; B.G. Black, EMBRAPA, Belém, Pará; Capucho, EMBRAPA; R.D. Froes,
EMBRAPA; Jari, Companhia Florestal Monte Dourado (INPA = Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas da Amazônia; EMBRAPA = Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisas Agropecuárias).
Website address: http://splink.cria.org.br/
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 14,000 slides; Slides not for
loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Brazil. Wanted: Tropical woods from Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Catalogue: Yes, internet or email.
Remarks: The main purpose of the Wood Anatomy and
Identification Group is to carry out studies in the wood anatomy field for
identification of Brazilian commercial woods. This group has
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Foundation: 1931.
Curator: SANDRA MONTEIRO BORGES FLORSHEIM, M.Sc., Scientific Researcher (wood anatomy, identification and quality, and wood variation), florsheim@iflorestsp.br.
Staff members: FINE THOMAZ ROCHA, B.Sc., Scientific Researcher (wood anatomy and plant sociology); ONILDO BARBOSA, M.Sc., Scientific Researcher (wood anatomy); OSNY THADEU DE AGUIAR, B.Sc., Scientific Researcher (vascular plant taxonomy).
Collection: 3,350 specimens, 515 genera.
Specialisation: Wood from trees of southeast and
southern
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 30,000; 10%
Periodical or serial publications: Revista do Instituto Florestal; Boletim Tecnico do Instituto Florestal.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 2,532 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: No.
Remarks: The wood collection and herbarium, "D. Bento Pickel", are now integrated and administered by the Wood and Forest Products Section of the Instituto Florestal.
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Foundation: 1940.
Curator: Dra. AGNES ELISETE LUCHI (wood anatomy), aeluchi@uol.com.br.
Staff members: Dra. SOLANGE CRISTINA MAZZONI-VIVEIROS (plant anatomy), mazzoni-viveiros@uol.com.br; Dra. EDENISE SEGALA ALVES (ecological plant anatomy), esegala@terra.com.br.
Collection: 2,003 specimens, 434 genera.
Specialisation: State of
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 360,000; 352 vouchers, 20%
Periodical or serial publications: Hoehnea.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 550 slides; Slides not for
loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: From
Catalogue: No.
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SAO PAULO: Xiloteca
Nanuza Luiza de Menezes, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Instituto de
Biociencias (IB-USP), Departamento de Botanica, (SPFw), Rua do Matao 277, Cidade Universitaria, 05508-090;
Post Address: C.P. 11461, 05522-970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. (updated
Foundation: 1991.
Curator: Prof. Dr. GREGORIO CECCANTINI (research in ecological wood anatomy, archeobotany, vegetative plant anatomy, tropical dendrochronology), gregorio@ib.usp.br.
Staff members: Prof. Dra. VERONICA ANGYALOSSY, Vice-curator, valfonso@ib.usp.br; LUCIANA GUSSELLA, Volunteer.
Collection: 3,503 specimens, 582 genera.
Specialisation: Taxa well represented include Terminalia and Buchenavia (Combretaceae), Podocarpus
(Podocarpaceae), Casearia
(Flacourtiaceae), Davilla
(Dilleniaceae). Also, ecosystems of Brazil, including trees and shrubs from
Brazilian cerrado (woody savanna) and deciduous forest of Mato Grosso region,
campos rupestres (Rocky fields) of Minas Gerais and Bahia regions, Atlantic
rain forest and Amazonia. Many samples of tropical lianes. Also representative
collections of
Herbarium vouchers: Yes,
Important collections: The most important collections
were made by G. Ceccantini (about 1500).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,500 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Trees and shrubs from Brazilian
cerrado (woody savanna) and deciduous
Catalogue: No, but in preparation.
Remarks: This collection has hundreds of samples used for reference in archeological, and paleoecological studies, vouchers of geochemical studies and linked to reference palynological slides of Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso and Maranhao states. The collection is being registered in a data bank that congregates all biological specimens present in collections of in the State of Sao Paulo. http://splink.cria.org.br/index?&setlang=en.
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SEROPEDICA: Xiloteca do
Departamento de Produtos Florestais, Universidade Federal Rural do
Foundation: 1956.
Curator: Prof. Dr. JOAO VICENTE DE FIGUEIREDO LATORRACA, Curator of the collection (wood anatomy and quality), latorraca@ufrrj.br, latorraca@hotmail.com.
Staff members: Prof. Dr. HEBER DOS
Collection: 4,900 specimens, 797 genera.
Specialisation: The collection is represented by specimens from several ecosystems and parts of the world.
Herbarium vouchers: No; No records maintained.
Periodical or serial publications: Revista Floresta e
Ambiente (http://www.ufrrj.br/institutos/if/revista/).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 3,816 slides; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Tropical woods. Wanted: Tropical woods, Eucalyptus woods.
Catalogue: Yes, there is a computer database.
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Foundation: 1917.
Staff members: Dr. R.J. BARBOUR, Research Scientist (wood structure and growth relations); Mr. G. CHAURET, Senior Technology (microscopy and microtechnique).
Collection: 3,829 specimens, 730 genera.
Specialisation: Timber species of present and potential commercial importance.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Canadian commercial species. These are also available for purchase in sets of 40 samples at $ 36.00 Cdn. [1988 price].
Remarks: Information on the wood collection is now
organised in a computerised catalogue in combination with similar information
on the wood collections of the Western Laboratory in
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Foundation: 1913.
Curator: Dr. JOHN J. BALATINECZ (wood anatomy, wood
composites).
Collection: 2,000 specimens, 96 genera.
Specialisation:
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 120 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
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VANCOUVER: Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, (VLw), 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada. (updated 07/01/2010).
Foundation: 1948.
Curator: Dr.
SIMON ELLIS (wood science, wood anatomy), simon.ellis@ubc.ca.
Collection: 7,500 specimens, 850 genera.
Specialisation: General.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 300 slides; Slides for loan.
Remarks: This collection is jointly administered by Forest Products Innovation, Forintek Division (Western Region; 2665 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1W5).
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CONCEPCION: Departamento
de Botanica, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanograficas, Universidad de
Concepcion, (CONCw), Casilla
160-C,
Foundation: 1973.
Curator: Dr. ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ RIOS (vascular plant systematics), rrodrigu@udec.cl.
Staff members: Dr. CARLOS BAEZA P. (vascular plant systematics), cbaeza@udec.cl.
Collection: 322 specimens, 100 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 170,000; less than 1%
Important collections: no.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,600 slides; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Wanted:
Catalogue: No.
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SANTIAGO: Xiloteca,
Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnologia de la Madera, Facultad de Ciencias
Forestales, Universidad de Chile, (EIFw), Santa Rosa, Paradero 32 1/2, Casilla 9206, Santiago, Chile. (outdated-pre 1988).
Foundation: 1969.
Collection: 1,500 specimens, 20 genera.
Specialisation: Native and exotic Chilean woods with special emphasis on commercial species.
Herbarium vouchers: No; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; about 25%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 450 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Chilean woods. Wanted:
Worldwide, especially from
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Foundation: 1963.
Curator: Prof. JOSE A. LASTRA-RIVERA (wood technology).
Staff members: Ing. ARIEL RUIZ, Curator.
Collection: 1,400 specimens, 616 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 2,500; 90%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 235 slides.
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MEDELLIN: Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellin, Departamento de Ciencias Forestales,
Laboratorio de Productos Forestales LPF, (MEDELw), Carrera 64 No 63 120 - Bloque 03 - Nucleo del Rio,
A.A. 1027, Medellin, Colombia.
(updated
Foundation: 1975.
Curator: Prof., Ing. ANGELA MARIA VASQUEZ CORREA, M.Sc. (wood anatomy and quality), avasquezco@yahoo.com, amvasque@unalmed.edu.co.
Staff members: YIMMY FERNANDO PEREZ MEDINA, Technician.
Collection: 2,900 specimens, 813 genera.
Specialisation: England, Canada, United States of America, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, India, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia.
Herbarium vouchers: No; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; about 20% of collection from the Colombian region.
Website address: www.unal.edu.co, Patrimonio y Museos,
Museos de la Universidad Nacional, Xiloteca,
Samples for sectioning: No.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,648 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Selected species from Anacardiaceae, Annonaceae, Apocynaceae, Aquifoliaceae, Araliaceae, Betulaceae, Bignoniaceae, Burseraceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Celastraceae, Clethraceae, Clusiaceae, Combretaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Guttiferae, Hypericaceae, Humiriaceae, Lauraceae, Malphigiaceae, Melastomataceae, Mimosaceae, Myristicaceae, Myrsicaceae, Myrtaceae, Olacaceae, Proteaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Simaroubaceae, Verbenaceae, Vochysiaceae, Winteraceae.
Catalogue: Yes, we have a computer database and we are working on an internet site.
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CARTAGO: Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica,(TECw), Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, CIIBI- Apartado Postal 159-7050, Cartago, Costa Rica. (updated 17/12/2009).
Foundation: 1980.
Curator: ROGER MOYA ROQUE (wood engineering), rmoya@itcr.ac.cr.
Collection: 3,000 specimens, 250 genera.
Specialisation: Central America; Tropical species; Additional collections received from Forest Products Laboratory and other countries.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, INBIO, ITCR; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 50%.
Important collections: Costa Rica , Bolivia ; Some woods from Forest Products Laboratory of USA (MADw).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 20%; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Wanted: Commercial woods.
Catalogue: Yes.
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HEREDIA: Escuela de
Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Nacional, (ECw),
Foundation: 1984.
Curator: Prof. JUAN CARLOS SANCHEZ (forestry).
Staff members: JORGE FALLAS, Director, Escuela de Ciencias Ambientales (natural resources).
Collection: About 250 specimens (150 native, 100 exotic), 118 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 600; 15%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
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TURRIALBA: Laboratorio
de Productos Forestales
Foundation: 1965.
Collection: About 1,350 specimens, about 450 genera.
Specialisation: South and
Herbarium vouchers: No; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 95%.
Important collections: Musee Royal de l'Afrique
Periodical or serial publications: Turrialba.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 2,230 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Central and
Remarks: Most of the specimens represented in the wood collection have been prepared from material which has been studied anatomically and of which the mechanical properties have been determined.
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ZAGREB: Wood
Structure and Preservation Section, Forestry Faculty, University of Zagreb, (ZAw), P.O. Box 178, Simunska 25, 41,000 Zagreb, Croatia. (outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1947.
Curator: Prof. Dr. BOZIDAR PETRI? (wood structure and
preservation).
Staff members: Mr. VELIMIR S?UKANEC; Ing. JELENA TRAJKOVI?; Ing. RADOVAN DESPOT.
Collection: 2,427 specimens, 292 genera.
Specialisation:
Periodical or serial publications: Bulletin ZIDI.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 812 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Indigenous trees and shrubs. Wanted: Extra-European.
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HAVANA: Julian Acuna,
Forest Research Institute, (HBw), Calle
174, No. 1723 (e) 17b y 17c, Siboney, Playa, Ciudad Habana, Cp 11 600, Cuba. (updated
Foundation: 1970.
Curator:
Staff members: KATIA MANZANARES AYALA, Ph.D., Forestry
Engineer (wood residues utilization), katia@forestales.co.cu; Eng. DIGNA
VELAZQUEZ VIERA, Forestry Engineer (wood residues utilization),
digna@forestales.co.cu; MARIA A. GUYAT DUPUY, M.Sc., Chemistry Engineer
(bio-energy specialist), mguyat@forestales.co.cu; Tech. MIGUEL
Collection: 569 specimens, 185 genera.
Specialisation: Wood samples from seven Cuban regions. We have an additional collection received from 14 countries.
Herbarium vouchers: No; 200; We maintain no records showing associated herbaria; 75%
Important collections: All cited collection is major.
["La Molina University Wood Collection",
Periodical or serial publications: Xiloteca de Maderas
cubanas. 1983. Ciudad Habana /.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 50% of collection are slides; Slides
not for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: From seven Cuban regions and
some furniture, construction, energy, packing, and urban trees. Wanted: From
other regions and forestry universities in
Catalogue: In typewriter copy and hard copy.
Remarks: The collection is very important to increasing knowledge about characteristics and properties of our forestry biodiversity and their transformation forest biomass for industry, particularly on sawmill and bio-energy. It is very useful for students, teachers, researchers, businessman and others.
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HAVANA: Within this
overall collection there are specific wood collections according to their
origin: Wood collection of the Estacion Experimental Agronomica de Santiago de
Las Vegas (SV); Wood collection of Colegio de la Salle (LS); Wood collection of
The Cuban Science Academy (ACC), National Herbarium of Cuba "Dr. Onaney Muniz"
(HAC), at the Institute of Ecology and Systematic, (ACCw, LSw, SVw),
Carretera de Varona, Km 31/2
Capdevila, Boyeros CP 10800 AP8029, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. (updated
Foundation: 1904 (SV), 1907 (LS), 1976 (ACC).
Curator: ANGEL VALE GONZALEZ, B.Sc. (plant reproductive ecology, plant-animal interactions, taxonomy and ecology in orchid family), merci@comerciallavega.com.cu, vitexaggelos@yahoo.es.
Staff members: Tech. MARIA TOMASA GONZALEZ (tomy@ecologia.cu).
Collection: SV: 382 specimens, LS: 280 specimens, ACC: 105 specimens, SV: 226 genera and 335 species, from 67 families; LS: 167 genera and 247 species, from 58 families; ACC: 76 genera and 129 species, from 30 families.
Specialisation: Cuban flora and they are
representative of the main bushy and woody vegetations of
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Important collections: Wood collection of the
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: No.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: A digital catalogue for the SVw collection
is available as an Excel database with 477 records and the following fields:
Botanical family, genus, species, author and infraspecific categories.
Additionally the following publications are devoted to this wood collection:
(a) Roig, J.T. (1966): Catalogo de maderas cubanas. Emp. Consolidada de Artes
Graficas, La Habana, 102 pp. (b) Roig, J.T. (1960): Arboles Maderables cubanos,
su localizacion por provincias y regiones. Centro Nacional de Experimentacion y
Extension Agricolas 60. (c) Herrera, P., Cardenas, A. and Machado, S. (1983):
Lista actualizada de la coleccion de maderas de la Academia de Ciencias de
Remarks: [Are these three collections combined to make one collection or kept seperately?] This small wood collection is poorly worked on and it has not been added to recently. The ten families best represented are: 1. Caesalpinaceae, 2. Bignoniaceae, 3. Sapindaceae, 4. Myrtaceae, 5. Verbenaceae, 6. Euphorbiaceae, 7. Sapotaceae, 8. Rubiaceae, 9. Fabaceae, 10. Mimosaceae. The ten genera best represented are: 1. Eugenia, 2. Sideroxylon, 3. Terminalia, 4. Diospyros, 5. Manilkara, 6. Casearia, 7. Cupressus, 8. Guapira, 9. Chionanthus, 10. Pithecellobium.
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Foundation: Early 70s.
Curator: ALES ZEIDLER, Ing., Ph.D., lecturer (wood
structure, wood properties), zeidler@lf.czu.cz.
Specialisation: No specialization but surprisingly contains mostly specimens from tropical areas and misses samples of some species from Middle Europe.
Herbarium vouchers: No; No records maintained.
Samples for sectioning: No.
Microscope slides: Yes; unknown number of slides; Slides
not for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Not at present.
Catalogue: yes, a hard copy but it is out of date.
Remarks: The collection was founded and run by Mr.
Hurda from Wood Research Institute in
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Foundation: 1968.
Curator: Prof. JULIO CICERO S. J., Curator of the wood collection.
Staff members: OMAR PAINO-PERDOMO, Research Associate (wood anatomy and fibers).
Collection: About 300 specimens, about 30 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Important collections: T. Zanoni, O. Paino-Perdomo and Julio Cicero S. J.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; few slides.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: The collections have anatomical pictures of
endemic species of La Espanola island (
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SANTO
DOMINGO: Jardin Botanico Nacional "Dr. Rafael M.
Moscoso", Herbarium, Botany Department, (JBSDw), P.O. Box 21-9, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (updated
Foundation: 1982.
Curator: FRANCISCO JIMENEZ.
Staff members: LUISA MONEGRO, Research Assistant in information.
Collection: Specimens of about 76 families, 226 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes.
Important collections: A. Veloz, F. Jimenez, I. Montero, J. Cicero, J. Gonzalez, J. Pimentel, J. Salazar, M. Mejia, O. Paino-Perdomo, R. Garcia, R.P. Adams, T. Clase, T. Zanoni, V.W. Klotz and W.L. Abbott.
Periodical or serial publications: Moscosoa.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: No.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: Most of the specimens represented in the wood collection have been prepared from material which has been studied anatomically.
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QUITO: Dendroxiloteca
Ecuatoriana M.A.S., Instituto Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, (DEQw), Apartado 408,
Foundation: 1940.
Collection: About 3,000 specimens.
Specialisation: Tropical woods of
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, in the herbarium of the
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales,
Important collections: Acosta-Solis (Esmeraldas) and
east, west, and central regions of
Periodical or serial publications: Flora (publication suspended in 1953).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Exchange: Yes. Wanted: Tropical
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Foundation: 1937.
Curator: PIERRE DETIENNE (tropical woods), pierre.detienne@cirad.fr.
Collection: 33,500 specimens, 2,100 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No own herbarium. Many vouchers
are lodged at the herbarium of Phanerogamie, Musee National d'Histoire
Naturelle,
Important collections: A. Chevalier (Ivory Coast, Gabon, Indochina); D. Normand (Central Africa); Services Forestiers (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Madagascar, French Guiana); Letouzey (Cameroon); Thouvenot (Madagascar); Sarlin (New Caledonia).
Periodical or serial publications: Bois et Forets des Tropiques.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 5,500 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Tropical
Catalogue: computer database.
Remarks: Transferred from Nogent sur
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PARIS: Departement
Hommes, Natures & Societes, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, (PATw), 57 rue Cuvier, 75231
Foundation: 1907.
Curator: Dr CATHERINE ORLIAC (
Staff members: Prof. SERGE BAHUCHET, Director Departement: Hommes, Natures, & Societes, bahuchet@mnhn.fr.
Collection: 3,440 specimens, 1018 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 975; 45%
Important collections: Auguste Chevalier (
Periodical or serial publications: JATBA: revue d'ethnobiologie.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: No.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: No.
Remarks: The wood collection could develop
considerably during the next few years as part of a project to restucture the
wooden collections kept in various departments of the
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Foundation: Between 1930 and 1940.
Curator: Mrs. YVONNE TRENARD, Keeper (wood anatomy).
Collection: 1,500 specimens, 200 genera.
Specialisation:
Important collections: Hardwoods and softwoods of
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 5,000 slides; Slides not for
loan.
Exchange: Some. Available:
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BERLIN: Naturhistorisches
Forschungsinstitut, Museum fur Naturkunde, Institut fur Palaontologie, (BHUw), Invalidenstrade 43, D-10 115 Berlin, Germany. (updated
Foundation: 1770, as part of the fossil collections of the "Koniglich Preudische Bergakademie"
Curator: There is no special curator for this part of the collection, it is curated by the head curator of palaeobotany, Dr. STEPHAN SCHULTKA (early landplants, Upper Carboniferous and Upper Jurassic plants), stephan.schultka@rz.hu-berlin.de.
Staff members: Prof. Dr. Herbert Sud, Retired (cenophytic wood anatomy).
Collection: About 5,000 specimens.
Specialisation: Worldwide, mainly
Herbarium vouchers: No; No records maintained.
Important collections: Cotta's Permian silicified woods from Saxonie; Sud-collection of recent woods.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 1,500 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: No, not at this moment.
Catalogue: Generally no, but a hardcopy of recent material.
Remarks: A database is in production; the wood collection is part of the palaeobotanical collections and is being reorganised.
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BERLIN-DAHLEM:
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, (Bw), Konigin-Luise-Strasse 6-8, D-1000 Berlin 33, Germany. (outdated-1988).
Foundation: About 1850.
Curator: Dr. PAUL HIEPKO, Curator of the Herbarium
(flora of the Guianas).
Collection: 9,000 specimens, 1,550 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, some vouchers in the general
herbarium; Only a very small proportion since the herbarium was destroyed in
1943; duplicates of original voucher specimens may be in other herbaria.
Important collections: Tessmann (Peru); Vageler, Karsten (Colombia); Philippi, Arendt (Chile); Sintenis (Puerto Rico); Curtiss (Florida, U.S.A.); Volkens, Warburg (Java); Volkens, Schlieben Holst v. Trotha (East Africa); Zenker, Mildbraed (Cameroon); Kersting (Togo); Forest Department, India; Krukoff (Brazil).
Periodical or serial publications: Willdenowia, Englera.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes (small collection of gifts).
Exchange: Yes. Available: A limited number of duplicates of older collections from different areas.
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Foundation: 1956.
Curator: BJORN WEISS, Dipl.-Ing. (wood anatomy, wood protection, microscopy), weiss@ihd-dresden.de.
Collection: 2,000 specimens, 500 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Website address: www.ihd-dresden.de.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 300 slides; Slides for
loan, after inquiry; Slides not for
exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: German/European wood species.
Catalogue: No.
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FRANKFURT: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Institut fur archaologische Wissenschaften, (JWGw), Abteilung fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte, Archaologie und Archaobotanik Afrikas, Gruneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (updated
Foundation: 1988.
Curator: Dr. KATHARINA NEUMANN (archaeobotany), k.neumann@em.uni-frankfurt.de.
Staff members: Dr. BARBARA EICHHORN (archaeobotany), b.eichhorn@em.uni-frankfurt.de; Dr. ALEXA HOHN (archaeobotany), a.hoehn@em.uni-frankfurt.de.
Collection: 1,781 specimens, 395 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, vouchers are housed at the Senckenberg herbarium in
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 882 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: West- (Sahelian domain) and West Central Africa. Wanted: West- (Sudanian domain) and West Central Africa, Euphorbiaceae of West Africa.
Catalogue: Yes, computer database in MS Access.
Remarks: The collection was established as a reference collection for the identification of archaeological charcoal. Most of the wood samples collected by ourselves are branches of varying diameter. Many samples were received from Tervuren or
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Foundation: 1817.
Curator: Prof. Dr. GEORG ZIZKA, Head of Botany-Paleobotany Department, Keeper of the Herbarium Senckenbergianum, georg.zizka@senckenberg.de.
Staff members: Dr. VOLKER WILDE, Curator of Paleobotany, volker.wilde@senckenberg.de; Dr. STEFAN DRESSLER, Curator of Phanerogams II, stefan.dressler@senckenberg.de; Dr. CHRISTIAN PRINTZEN, Curator of Cryptogams, christian.printzen@senckenberg.de.
Collection: Recent woods: About 1,000 specimens; Fossil woods: about 3,000 specimens, Recent woods: 550 genera; Fossil woods: 50 genera.
Specialisation: Recent woods:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; Less than 1%
Important collections: Recent woods: D. F. Knoblauch (
Website address: www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=422.
Periodical or serial publications: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, depending on specimens.
Microscope slides: Yes; Recent woods: 1,700 specimens
of wood-slides (see publication details under Catalogue), Fossil woods: 500
slides; Slides not for loan, but accessible; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Schaarschmidt, F. (1979): Vergleichssammlung
rezenter Epidermis- und Holzpraparate.- Courier Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 37:
63-87. (hard copy; dealing only with a minor part of the collections, listing
wood slides).
Remarks: CONERT, H.J. (ed.) (1999): Index Collectorum
Herbarii Senckenbergiani.- Courier Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 217: 1-201. (hard
copy), Index Collectorum Herbarii Senckenbergiani.- URL:
http://www.senckenberg.de/fis/sammler.pdf (updated version).
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Foundation: 1940.
Curator: Dr. habil. GERALD KOCH, Curator, Dr. Hans GEORG RICHTER, Retired, Department of Wood Structure and Quality, gkoch@holz.uni-hamburg.de.
Staff members: Ms. EDDA JOHN, Laboratory Assistant, Department of Wood Structure and Quality (wood collection management), john@holz.uni-hamburg.de.
Collection: 24,000 specimens, 2,380 genera.
Specialisation: Tropical regions, Boraginaceae,
Dichapetalaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Ebenaceae, Lauraceae, Magnoliaceae,
Myristicaceae, Monimiaceae, Palmae (rattan genera), Sapotaceae (
Herbarium vouchers: No, there is a small herbarium but not really associated with the wood collection. Only a few of our wood specimens (perhaps 150) have a voucher deposited there.; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; About 50%
Important collections: West Africa:- Jentsch, Mildbraed, Zenker (Cameroon); Kersting (Togo); Cooper (Liberia); Detienne (Ivory Coast); Dechamps (Angola); Breteler et al. (Dichapetalaceae); East Africa:- Schlieben (Tanzania); South and Central America:- Tessmann (Peru); Poveda (Costa Rica); Krukoff (Brazil); Schroeder (Uruguay); Eggers & Berge (Caribbean); Stahel (Surinam); Southeast Asia:- Krukoff (Sumatra); Gamble (India); BZF Bogor (Indonesia).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; More than 50,000 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange, but very limited.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Yes, few hardcopies left dating from 1994
(so somewhat outdated).
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Foundation: 1955.
Curator: Dr. DIETGER GROSSER, dgrosser@wzw.tum.de.
Collection: About 10,000 specimens, About 1,250 genera.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 25,000 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Restricted, from
Remarks: With about 150 Central European specimens.
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Foundation: 1970.
Curator: Prof. THOMAS TRUEBSWETTER (wood anatomy,
pathology, and preservation).
Staff members: Ing. JOSEF SCHMID.
Collection: 3,500 species, 450 genera.
Herbarium vouchers: No; About 10%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 400 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: By arrangement.
Remarks: The collection has been established for use of students in wood engineering and to establish voucher specimens for identification and use in European industry and trade.
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THARANDT: Sektion
Forstwirtschaft, Bereich Biologie, Forstbotanischer Garten, Technische
Universitat Dresden, (TSFw), Pienner
Strasse 7, 8223 Tharandt, Germany.
(outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1852.
Curator: Prof. Dr. MANFRED TESCHE, Leiter des
Bereiches Biologie und des Forstbotanischen Gartens (forest botany, tree
pathology).
Collection: 2,350 specimens, 563 genera.
Specialisation: General.
Important collections: Nordlinger (
Microscope slides: Yes; 2,560 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: European woods and woods from Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt. Wanted: Commercial tropical woods.
Remarks: The Spanish woods noted above formed the basis for Huber and Rouschal's publication, "Mikrophotographischer Atlas mediterraner Holzer."
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Foundation: 1965.
Curator: Dr. A.A. OTENG-AMOAKO, Principal Research Scientist (wood preservation and wood anatomy), oamoako@csir-forig.org.gh.
Staff members: Mr. EMMANUEL EBANYENLE, Research Scientist (wood anatomy), ebanyenle@csir-forig.org.gh, ebanyenle@yahoo.com.
Collection: 883 specimens, 276 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No; No records maintained, however
Forestry Research
Important collections:
Periodical or serial publications: Ghana Journal of Forestry.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 436 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange, for selected taxa.
Exchange: Yes for some species. Available:
Catalogue: Yes in the form of hard copy.
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Foundation: 1971.
Curator: Dr. GEORGE TSOUMIS, Prof. of Forest
Utilisation (wood structure of forest trees, growth, identification,
properties, and products).
Staff members: E. VOULGARIDIS, Assistant Professor.
Collection: 1,127 specimens, 944 species, 449 genera.
Specialisation: Commercial woods of the world.
Herbarium vouchers: For native Greek species; 80; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 100%
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; few slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Greek (Mediterranean) forest
trees and shrubs. Wanted: American (especially tropical),
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Foundation: 1909.
Curator: Commissioner of Forests.
Staff members: GANESHWAR GHARBARRAN (forest flora of
Collection: 757 specimens, 322 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 7,800; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 100%.
Important collections: B.R. Wood, C.W. Anderson, C.A. Persaud, D.B. Fanshawe, G.G. Brinsley, Ivan Welch, J.R. Lockie, J.B. Aitken, L.S. Hohenkerk, N.Y. Sandwith, Rufus Boyan, T.A.W. Davis.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: This wood collection specialises mainly in
trees of
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Foundation: 1930.
Curator: JEAN ARSENE CONSTANT, constant@caramail.com.
Staff members: Profesors volunteers.
Collection: More than 300 specimens, more than 200
species.
Specialisation: Economic and trade woods of
Herbarium vouchers: Yes.
Important collections: Department of Agriculture,
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: No.
Exchange: Not yet. Wanted:
Remarks: The collections are not organized. Restoration project is adding to it.
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Foundation: 1902.
Curator: Dr. DEZS? KOVATS, Curator (anatomy and
taxonomy of flowering plants).
Collection: 1,500 to 1,700 specimens.
Specialisation: Mostly
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 1,500.
Important collections: Nordlinger, Fiori (
Samples for sectioning: Yes, partly.
Microscope slides: Yes; Nordlinger and Fiori thick slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Mostly from
Remarks: Part of the collection is undocumented but it
is known that some of the specimens came from the
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Foundation: 1946.
Collection: 50 specimens and 10 genera of Cycadales;
510 specimens and 70 genera of conifers.
Periodical or serial publications: Acta Biologica (
Microscope slides: Yes; 2,500-3,000 slides of conifers; Slides for loan, 1,000 conifers.
Exchange: Yes.
Remarks: From 1980, the collection will be housed in
the Pal Greguss Muzeum,
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Foundation: 1966.
Curator: HARALDAR AGUSTSSON.
Collection: 1,600 specimens, 1296 species, 511 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide and woods from
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Remarks: The collection contains 241 species,
representing 41 genera and 8 families of Gymnosperms, and 1,055 species of
hardwoods belonging to 470 genera and 102 families. Although primarily of a
private nature, this unique collection in
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AMLAI: Birla Museum
of Forestry and Forest Products, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, (AMw), P.O. Amlai Paper Mills-484 117, Dist. Shahdol (M.P.), India. (outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1979.
Curator: Mr. MOHAN C. PANDE, Director of Research
(forestry and agriculture).
Collection: 1,140 specimens, 530 genera.
Specialisation: Museum exhibits woods from all over
the world. Present collection comprises 581 species of Indian region and 433
species from countries in
Herbarium vouchers: Museum herbarium projected for
fall 1987. For Indian species vouchers now maintained in herbarium, Forest
Research Institute,
Samples for sectioning: Yes, Indian species only.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: Wood specimens from the Indian region in the museum are exhibited in natural form of small logs with bark intact and logs sectioned to show wood structure in various planes. The museum is a member of the Museums Association of India.
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DEHRADUN: Dehradun
Xylarium, Forest Research Institute, (DDw), Dehradun-248006,
Foundation: 1836 (by Dr. Griffith).
Curator: Drs. SANGEETA GUPTA, Scientist-in-charge (wood anatomy and identification), guptas@icfre.org.
Staff members: Mr. G.B. SAXSENA, Technician.
Collection: 15,000 (9,000 foreign, 6,000 erstwhile
Specialisation: Erstwhile
Herbarium vouchers: Vouchers deposited at Dehradun
Herbarium (DD), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun-248006,
Important collections:
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; about 7,000 slides; Slides for
loan, limited; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: Yes, only for Indian woods, computer database.
Remarks: The wood collection formed the basis for the
following publications: Gamble, J.S.
1922. A Manual of Indian Trees. Marston & Company, London.; Pearson &
Brown. 1932. Commercial timbers of
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KERALA: Xylarium, Wood
Science and Technology (
Foundation: 1979.
Curator: Dr. K.M. BHAT (programme coordinator forest utilisation), kmbhat@kfri.org.
Staff members: Dr. K.V. BHAT, kvbhat@kfri.org; Mr. P.K. THULASIDAS, Senior Scientific Assistant.
Collection: 587 specimens (133 samples representing 68 genera and 114 species from India/Kerala and the rest are from 10 foreign countries), 68 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, maintained in the herbarium of Botany Division (KFRI); 40%
Samples for sectioning: Yes, but limited supply.
Microscope slides: Yes; 120 slides; Slides not for loan; Slides for exchange, limited slides available.
Exchange: Yes, a limited number. Available: Indian species (limited number may be available for exchange).
Catalogue: KFRI Research Report 73 (Published in 1991), available in KFRI CD.
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Foundation: 1950.
Curator: Dr. B.S. VENKATACHALA, Director; Dr. H.A. KHAN. Curator.
Staff members: Dr. N. AWASTHI, Assistant Director (fossil and living xylotomy and leaf morphology).
Collection: 3,612 specimens, 873 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; a few; Records kept of the deposit of some vouchers elsewhere; about 30%.
Important collections: Indian collections from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Periodical or serial publications: Palaeobotanist.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 4,009 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: The wood collection is maintained primarily for the identification of fossil woods.
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Foundation: 1914.
Curator: Dra.
Staff members: Dr. YANCE MANDANG (wood anatomy and wood properties); USEP SUDARDJI, Technical Officer (wood identification).
Collection: 41,679 specimens, 785 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, housed in
Periodical or serial publications: Forest Products Research Bulletin.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, application should be
made to Director of Forest Products Technology Research and
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Foundation: 1955.
Curator: Prof. PARVIZ NILOUFARI.
Staff members: Dr. DAVOUD PARSA-PAJOUH, Dr. KAZEM DOUST-HOSEINI, Dr. SAID AMIRI, Dr. GHANBAR EBRAHlMI, Eng. EBRAHIM AGHA-RAFII.
Collection: 1,000 specimens, 20 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 3,000; 33%.
Important collections: Gauba, Sabeti, and Esfandiari collections.
Periodical or serial publications: Iranian Journal of Natural Resources.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 500 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Caspian forests of
Remarks: The Forest Products Laboratory was
established in 1955 and collections of European, African, southeast Asian, and
Australian woods were accessioned. Also, there are about 800 woody plants of
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Foundation: 1890s (formerly at the National Museum until 1970).
Curator: MATTHEW JEBB (taxonomy), matthew.jebb@opw.ie.
Staff members: CRISTINA ARMSTRONG, Herbarium assistant .
Collection: About 1,000 specimens, 200 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 600,000; Less than 1%.
Important collections: Coulter's Mexican woods; Arctic driftwoods, 1875 (28); Brazilian woods, 1909 (40); R.B.Hough's American woods, Lowville, N.Y., USA, Vols, 1-14 (1888-1910); Nordlinger's wood sections, Stuttgart, Germany, Vols I-XI (1852 to 1888); Timber Research & Development Association, High Wycombe, UK (48); PNG timbers, Dept. of Primary Industry, Papua New Guinea (88); Charcoal collection of Irish native species.
Website address: www.botanicgardens.ie .
Samples for sectioning: Yes, some of our collection comprises artefacts of known wood provenance, these are not available for exchange.
Microscope slides: Yes; about 150 slides; Slides not for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Irish native species and cultivated trees in the collection (www.botanicgardens.ie/nbg/cat.htm).
Catalogue: Currently about half the collection is computerised, but not available on the internet as yet.
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DUBLIN: The
Powerscourt Collection of World Timbers, Department of Forestry, University
College, (DBw), Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
(outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1930.
Curator: Dr. JOHN J. GARDINER.
Staff members: Dr. P.M. JOYCE.
Collection: 900 specimens.
Specialisation: General.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 100 slides; Slides for loan.
Remarks: This is an amateur collection upon which no research has been carried out. [Transferred to DBN - IX4 Editor's note]
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ILANOTH: Forestry
Division, Agricultural Research Organisation, (NATw), Ilanoth, D.N. Lev
Foundation: 1950.
Collection: 1,820 specimens, 540 genera.
Specialisation: Native and introduced timbers.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, but only for local species;
60; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 80 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Native and introduced species. Wanted: Commercial timbers of the world.
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Foundation: 1954.
Curator: Dr. NICOLA MACCHIONI, Head of the Wood Anatomy laboratory at IVaLSA - CNR, macchioni@ivalsa.cnr.it.
Staff members: SIMONA LAZZERI, Laboratory Technician,
lazzeri@ivalsa.cnr.it; Dr.
Collection: About 10,000 specimens, about 6,500 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Important collections: Brazilian wood in book like specimens.
Periodical or serial publications: Our Institute
published a sort of internal series called "Contributi scientifico pratici per
una migliore conoscenza
Samples for sectioning: Yes, about 4,000 specimens,
mostly species from
Microscope slides: Yes; about 4,000 slides; Slides for
loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes, about 4,000. Available:
Catalogue: There is a computer database, based on File Maker software.
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Foundation: 1842 (Same as that of the Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae).
Collection: 5,400-5,500 specimens.
Specialisation: Worldwide with special emphasis on
tropical
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, in the herbaria; 4,000,000; 30-40%.
Important collections: Bavazzano (Somalia, Mozambique, Kenya, Cameroon); Beccari (Malesia); Corti (Fezzan, Libya); Fenaroli (Brazil); Fiori (Eritrea); Pichi Sermolli (Ethiopia); Senni (Peru).
Samples for sectioning: Yes, for some specimens only.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Tropical
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MILAN: Civica
Siloteca "R. Cormio", Civico Museo de Storia Naturale, (MCSw), Corso Venezia 55,
Foundation: 1910.
Collection: About 6,000 specimens, about 600 genera.
Specialisation: Central and southern
Herbarium vouchers: No; 10% or less.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Remarks: The wood collection is in a poor state of conservation because it was neglected for many years. Because many of the specimens are seriously damaged, the collection needs reorganisation and specimens need to be replaced.
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PADOVA: Xiloteca
didattica, University of Padova, (UPADw), University of Padova, Corso di laurea in Tecnologie e
industrie del legno Via Dante 4 - 31029 Vittorio Veneto TV, Italy. (updated
Foundation: 1990.
Curator: Dr TIZIANA URSO, researcher (wood anatomy, wood structure), tiziana.urso@unipd.it.
Collection: Over 1,000 specimens, about 100 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Important collections: wood defects.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 100 species; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Available in hard copy and computer database.
Remarks: The collection is educational; many specimens are present in multiple copies for educational purposes.
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Foundation: 1943.
Curator: Mrs. LENA GREEN, Botanist.
Collection: 749 specimens, 169 genera (some specimens identified by common names).
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 74,811 flowering plants; about 73%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: The collection is good but needs updating. No one is currently working on this collection and it needs specialist attention.
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HYOGO: Museum of
Nature and Human Activities, (HYOw), Hyogo,
(HYOw), Yayoigaoka 6, Sanda, Hyogo, 669-1546,
Foundation: 1994.
Curator: Dr. AKIRA TAKAHASHI, Senior Researcher (wood anatomy, local flora), takahasi@hitohaku.jp.
Collection: 5,200 specimens, 400 genera.
Specialisation: Mostly
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 95,000; 80%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, but limited.
Microscope slides: Yes; 2000 slides; Slides not for
loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: No.
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Foundation: 1980.
Curator: Prof. JUNJI SUGIYAMA, Doctor of Agriculture (cellulose and renewable materials), sugiyama@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
Staff members: Mr. HAJIME SORIMACHI (Technician).
Collection: 20,000 specimens, 1,150 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide, but mostly
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 1,300; All Japanese woods; Less than 10%
Important collections: Japanese woods.
Website address: http://database.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 10,000 slides; Slides for
loan, generally restricted to qualified scientists. Domestically, cooperative
research to visit and make use of our collection and facility is under support.; Slides not
for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: All Japanese woods. Wanted: Any area and taxa are welcome.
Catalogue: Yes, The original is an Excel database. Wood collections and microscope slides are in the lists. Internet site in Japanese and English at http://database.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
Remarks: A large number of wood samples from temples
and shrines in
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SENDAI/TOHOKU:
Herbarium Tsudanum, Botanical Garden,
Foundation: 1994.
Curator: Dr. MITSUO SUZUKI, Director (wood anatomy), mitsuos@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp.
Staff members: Dr. MOTONARI OHYAMA (dendrochronology), motonari@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp.
Collection: 7,100 specimens, more than 129 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 3,000 slides, and about 100,000 slides of excavated fossil woods; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: No.
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TOKYO: Department of
Forest Botany,
Foundation: 1925.
Curator: Dr. TOSHIO HAMAYA (dendrology and forest
botany).
Staff members: Dr. MIKIO KAJI (forest ecology, African
trees especially of
Collection: 16,000 specimens, 760 genera.
Specialisation: Mostly
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, the herbarium of the Section
of Forest Botany,
Samples for sectioning: Yes, but partially.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 40,000 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes, but only a small number. Available:
Remarks: The wood collection is temporarily housed in
the Laboratory of Forest Botany, Faculty of Agriculture,
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TSUKUBA: Forestry and
Forest Products Research Institute, (TWTw), Matsunosato, Tsukuba,
Foundation: 1928.
Curator: Dr. SHUICHI NOSHIRO, Team Leader (wood anatomy and identification), noshiro@ffpri.affrc.go.jp.
Staff members: Dr. HISASHI ABE, Senior Researcher (wood anatomy and identification), abeq@ffpri.affrc.go.jp; Dr. AKIRA KAGAWA, Researcher (dendrochemistry), akagawa@ffpri.affrc.go.jp.
Collection: 25,000 specimens, 1,800 genera.
Specialisation: East and
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 6,000; Records partly kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 30%
Important collections: Ogata's
Website address: www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/TWTwDB-E/home.php.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 86,000 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: Internet site.
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KEPONG: WT- Wood
Technology, Forest Research Institute
Foundation: 1918.
Curator: Dr ANI SULAIMAN (wood anatomy, properties and utilisation), anis@frim.gov.my.
Collection: About 10,000 specimens, to be updated.
Specialisation: Peninsular
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; Almost 100%
Important collections: Desch's Malayan woods (some may
not be available anymore).
Samples for sectioning: Can be considered.
Microscope slides: Yes.
Exchange: To be updated.
Catalogue: To be updated.
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KUCHING: Timber
Research and Technical Training Centre, Forest Department, (SARFw), Kuching,
Foundation: 1956.
Collection: 7,418 specimens, 348 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; over 55,000; Almost 100%
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 2,566 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Anacardiaceae, Annonaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Lauraceae, Meliaceae, Rubiaceae. Wanted: Same as Available.
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Foundation: 1946, partly destroyed by fire in January 1961; active collection carried out since 1967.
Curator: Dr. ONG
Staff members: M.P. UDARBE, Senior Research Officer.
Collection: 6,845 specimens, 364 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 75,000; Records kept of
vouchers deposited elsewhere; 100% of
Important collections:
Samples for sectioning: Will be considered.
Microscope slides: Yes; 513 slides; Slides for loan, requests will be considered.
Exchange: Yes, but limited and available for
Remarks: Most of the data reported here are from Index Xylariorum 2 owing to receipt of incomplete information from sender (W.L.S. in IX3).
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MEXICO: Xiloteca Dr.
Ramon Echenique-Manrique, Instituto de Biologia,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, (MEXUw), Circuito Exterior Jardin Botanico, Ciudad
Universitaria, Coyoacan 04510, Mexico D.F. Ap. Postal 70-233, Mexico. (updated
Foundation: 1969.
Curator: M. en C. JOSEFINA BARAJAS-MORALES, Master degree (research in descriptive and ecological wood anatomy), barajas@ibiologia.unam.mx.
Collection: 3,646 specimens, 565 genera.
Specialisation: Mexico.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, the wood collection is part of the Herbario Nacional de Mexico (MEXU), at the Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. All vouchers are deposited there; about 1,200,000; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; about 85%
Important collections: The more abundant collections have been carried out by: F. Miranda, J. Barajas, G. Angeles, C. Leon, G. Ibarra, P. Tenorio y E. Martinez, in different regions of Mexico.
Periodical or serial publications:
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 3,000 slides; Slides not
for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: From Mexico. Wanted:
Catalogue: Recently we made a computer database, which was included in the big governmental database CONABIO (www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/v_ingles/resources). Also another database at Instituto de Biologia named UNIBIO.
Remarks: In 1969, the wood technologist Dr. Ramon
Echenique-Manrique came to the Biology Institute. He organized the tablets
collected by Faustino Miranda in 1949 (112 specimens), and obtained new
specimens from Mexico and other countries. With these actions he started a
serious wood collection, and the research in wood anatomy and Technology at
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MEXICO: Xiloteca
Nacional, Seccion de Anatomia de Maderas, lnstituto Nacional de Investigaciones
Forestales, (MEXFw), Avenida
Progreso No.5, Coyoacan, Mexico 21, D.F., Mexico.
(outdated-pre 1988).
Foundation: 1954.
Collection: 4,882 specimens, 1,030 genera.
Specialisation: General.
Herbarium vouchers: All Mexican specimens are
represented by herbarium vouchers deposited in the Section of Botany and
Ecology of the Institute.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: See Remarks.
Remarks: Communication and/or exchanges have been initiated with all institutions listed in the first edition (1967) of the Index Xylariorum and specimens of native Mexican woods are available on exchange.
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XALAPA: Xiloteca "Dr.
Faustino Miranda", Instituto de Ecologia, A.C., (XALw), Km. 2.5 Carretera Antigua a Coatepec No. 351, Congregacion
"El Haya", 91070 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
(updated
Foundation: 1976.
Curator: M. en C. FERNANDO ORTEGA ESCALONA, Keeper (wood anatomist in tropical timbers and structure-properties relationship), ortega@ecologia.edu.mx.
Staff members: Dr. GUILLERMO ANGELES, Wood Anatomist (functional structure of secondary xylem), guillermo.angeles@inecol.edu.mx.
Collection: 4,000 specimens, 362-380 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Only some of the specimens in the wood collection are backed by vouchers in the Herbarium of the Instituto de Ecologia, A.C. (XAL).; For the trees felled specifically for our wood collection, vouchers were deposited in our herbarium and for the wood samples that we got in donation or exchange, only the xylarium id is kept.; about 30%
Important collections: Selva Lacandona's woods of
Periodical or serial publications: Boletin Tecnico "La
Madera y Su Uso" No. 19, 1988, 206 pp. Angiospermas Arboreas de Mexico No. 1.
Anatomia de la
Samples for sectioning: Yes, in cases where we have enough duplicates.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 1,000 slides of 200
species; Slides for loan, some available, we could always provide colour images; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Small number of duplicates
from the tropical rainforest and moist
Catalogue: Information on part of our collection can be reviewed at: http://www.conabio.gob.mx/
Remarks: Our wood collection is one of the few active
ones in
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YEZIN: Forest Research
Institute, (ARw), Yezin,
Foundation: 1960.
Curator: U THEIN KYWE, Research Officer.
Staff members: DAW YI YI
Collection: 1,873 specimens, 444 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 1,490; 80%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,876 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: Material formerly at Ahlone/Rangoon has been moved to the Wood Anatomy Research Section of the Forest Research Institute at Yezin. The wood specimens are principally those collected between 1960 and 1962 by Dr. H. Gottwald and U Ral Lian Sum for projects of FAO. The collections are being expanded and all woods collected are associated with herbarium vouchers.
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LALITPUR: Department of
Plant Resources, National Herbarium and Plant Laboratory, (KATHw),
Foundation: 1976.
Curator: Mrs. LAJMINA JOSHI, Head Plant Anatomy Section (wood anatomy and identification), lajmina@hotmail.com.
Collection: 350 specimens, 150 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 100; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 10%.
Important collections: Suzuki and Noshiro (Himalayan
region of
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 200 slides. Other plant parts are also represented including leaves, stems and twigs.; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes, available, but limited. Available:
Catalogue: No.
Remarks: Wood anatomy of Fagaceae published.
The
Preamble: Institutional Wood Collections in the
AMSTERDAM: See LEIDEN, was Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, (RTlw), Netherlands. (updated 18/12/2009).
Foundation: 1939.
Curator: Ing. B.D. VAN ETTEN (identification, wood quality), bas.vanetten@tno.nl.
Staff members: P. WOLVE.
Collection: 10,600 specimens, 850 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; about 85%.
Important collections: G. Stahel (Surinam); B.A. Krukoff (Brazil); Lam (Thailand, Irian Jaya); van Royen (Irian Jaya); Vink (Irian Jaya); Koorders (Java).
Samples for sectioning: Yes, available occasionally by special request.
Microscope slides: Yes; about 9,500 slides.
Exchange: Yes.
Available:
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Foundation: Not clear; the oldest date of collected wood is 1965.
Curator: Dr. R.T.J. CAPPERS, r.t.j.cappers@rug.nl.
Staff members:
Drs. J.N. BOTTEMA-
Collection: About 600 specimens, 61 genera.
Specialisation:
N.W.
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 282 slides; Slides not for loan, only available for use at location; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes.
Available: N.W.
Catalogue: Not yet.
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LEIDEN: Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden
branch, (Lw,
RTIw, Uw), Einsteinweg
2, P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
(updated
Foundation: 1955 (Lw). The RTIw collection, founded in 1913 in Amsterdam was transferred to Leiden in 2005; the Uw collection from Utrecht founded in 1946 transferred in 2009.
Curator: Prof. Dr. ERIK SMETS, Director (systematic and ecological wood anatomy), Smets@nhn.leidenuniv.nl.
Staff members: Mr. GERARD THIJSSE, Chief collections manager, Thijsse@nhn.leidenuniv.nl; Dr. PIETER BAAS, Honorary staff, Baas@nhn.leidenuniv.nl.
Collection: 105,000 specimens (Lw 30,000; Uw 40,000; RTIw 35,000), over 2,000 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide, but especially strong in the Malesian region and tropical South America.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 3,000,000; As much as possible records are kept of vouchers belonging to wood samples received through exchange or gifts; 80%
Important collections: Koorders (Java); BW (former colonial forestry service or BosWezen from Irian Jaya/Papua; Boschproefstation (bb); Forest Department (BBS, LBB, Surinam); Krukoff (Brazil); Reitz & Klein (Brazil); Collections by Leiden and other botanists from Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia and neotropical collections by Utrecht botanists.
Website address: www.nhn.leidenuniv.nl.
Periodical or serial publications: Blumea, IAWA Journal (published for the International Association of Wood Anatomists by the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland - Leiden).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 26,000 slides; Slides for loan, but restricted; Slides for exchange, but very limited numbers.
Exchange: Yes.
Available: The
Catalogue: Yes, computer database. All Leiden (Lw) and Utrecht (Uw) wood samples have been databased for internal use only. In the future these data will be made available electronically on our website. The internet site includes about 6,000 photographs of transverse and tangential sections of Uw wood samples and is also incorporated in the InsideWood database (www.insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu).
Remarks: Among our historical collections is the unique set of Japanese woods decorated with foliage paintings of the tree species they belong to. Donated to Von Siebold in 1826 by Mogami Tokunai. It probably dates from the end of the 18th century.
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To be transferred to Leiden WAGENINGEN: Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Wageningen University Branch, Wageningen
University, (WAGw), Generaal
Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen, Netherlands.
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Foundation: About 1962.
Curator: K. VAN SETTEN, Assistant Technical Curator, Koen.vanSetten@wur.nl.
Staff members: Prof. Dr. M.S.M. SOSEF, Director (African Begoniaceae, Gramineae, Flora of Gabon), Marc.Sosef@wur.nl; Dr. J.J. WIERINGA, Scientific Curator, (biodiversity assesment, Leguminosae, flora of Gabon), Jan.Wieringa@wur.nl; J.F. ALEVA, Technical Curator, Folkert.Aleva@wur.nl.
Collection: About 7,000 specimens, about 1,300 genera.
Specialisation: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Gabon and several other West African countries; About 450 specimens come from Columbia and Venezuela; Cultivated trees and shrubs from the Botanical Gardens Wageningen; Apocynaceae, Dichapetalaceae, Caesalpinoideae, Combretaceae.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, the wood collection is a small part of the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland - Wageningen University Branch, formerly Herbarium Vadense; about 800,000 specimens; about 80%.
Important collections: Breteler and De Bruijn (Venezuela); Breteler (Gabon, Cameroon); Jongkind (Ghana, Liberia); Wieringa (Gabon); The collections formerly belonging to WLw and WIBw.
Website address: http://www.bis.wur.nl/UK/.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes, formerly WLw and WIBw are present in the Leiden University Branch; WIBw: 6,328 slides, WLw: unknown; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: especially Gabon, Venezuela. Wanted: Africa, especially tropical West Africa, Central Africa and Gabon.
Catalogue: Yes, we are in the process of digitizing our collections in the database of the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland.
Remarks: The
collections of WLw and WIBw (
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WAGENINGEN: Vakgroep Plantencytologie en morfologie,
Botanisch Laboratorium, (WLw - integrated with WAGw, to be moved to
Foundation: 1948.
Collection: 3,500 specimens, 1,300 genera.
Herbarium vouchers: Deposited at Botanical Laboratory and Department of Plant Taxonomy and Plant Geography, Wageningen; Botanical Laboratory, University of Utrecht; probably at Bosbouwproefstation, Bogor, Indonesia; 65%.
Important
collections: Stahel, De Hulster, WS (
Remarks: On our wood specimens and microscope slides, the following abbreviations may have been used: de H or De H for de Hulster wood blocks collected by the Forest Service, Paramaribo, Surinam and indicated with Arabic numbers; dHS for wood sectors sampled by de Hulster and indicated with Roman dates (cf., Acta Botanica Neerlandica 4: 461, 462. 1955); WS for Welvaartsfonds Suriname.
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WAGENINGEN: Vakgroep Bosbouwtechniek, Instituut voor
Bosbouwkundig Onderzoek, Landbouwhogeschool (Department of Forestry Techniques,
Foundation: 1945, the original collection founded many years ago was destroyed during World War II.
Collection: 5,320 specimens, 1,317 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: The greater part of the Indonesian specimens are covered by herbarium material in the Botanical Laboratory of Leiden University (Rijksherbarium).
Important
collections: Forest Research Institute, Indonesia; Forest Service, Surinam;
Stahel (Surinam); Department of Plant Taxonomy, Wageningen; Forest Products
Laboratory, Canada; Forest Products Institute, South Africa; Conservator of
Forests, North Borneo; Laboratoire Forestier de l'Etat, Belgium; Musee de Congo
Belge, Belgium; Service des Eaux et Forets, New Caledonia; Forest Products
Research Institute, Philippines; Division of Forest Products, Australia; New
Zealand Forest Service; Timber Development Association, New Zealand; Field
Museum of Natural History.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 6,328 slides.
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CHRISTCHURCH:
Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury, (CHNw), Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. (updated
Foundation: 1970.
Curator: Prof. BRIAN BUTTERFIELD, Brian.Butterfield@canterbury.ac.nz.
Collection: 2,500 specimens, 400 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 1,500; 67%.
Periodical or serial publications: Structure of New Zealand Woods, B.A. Meylan and B.G.Butterfield, NZ Govt Printer 1978.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 300 slides; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Personal card files.
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Foundation: 1974.
Collection: 1,400 specimens, more than 110 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 900 specimens; 65%.
Samples for sectioning: Usually no.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,600 slides; Slides not for
loan.
Remarks: A collection of 900 wood samples, all with
vouchers lodged with the wood collection, forms the basis of anatomical
studies. There is also a collection of 500 wood specimens from the
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ROTORUA:
Foundation: Unknown.
Curator: Dr LLOYD DONALDSON, Senior Scientist (wood
anatomist/microscopist,
Collection: More than 4,500 specimens, 1100 genera.
Specialisation: Southwest
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Important collections: Day (New Zealand; woods donated
by George Day 1903-1978), Ll. Williams (
Website address: http://www.scionresearch.com/wood+collection.aspx.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, except
Microscope slides: Yes, not associated with wood
collection; Slides not for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No, we have no space for new specimens and do not have duplicates.
Catalogue: There is a computer database but it is very old (DOS). We hope to update this eventually if funding is available.
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MANAGUA: Laboratory of
Wood Technology "Olof Palme," Nicaraguan Institute of Natural
Resources and Environment, (NINw), P.O.
Box 5123, Managua, Nicaragua.
(outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1983.
Curator: ZOILA HERRERA ALEGRIA (wood anatomy).
Staff members: ALEYDA MORALES VARGAS (wood anatomy); MARGARITA CASTRO GUTIERREZ (wood anatomy); PETRONILA AVENDANO MEDRANO (wood anatomy).
Collection: 472 specimens, 133 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 205; about 50%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 105 slides; Slides not for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: Herbarium specimens are lodged in the
National Herbarium of Nicaragua. Wood specimens have been collected from both
tropical rain forest and tropical dry forest areas of
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Foundation: 1962.
Collection: About 2,500 specimens, 400 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 80,000; Over 95%.
Important collections: See Remarks.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, copies of such research papers are requested.
Microscope slides: Yes; 5,000 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: The Timber Library is being built up by
collecting specimens to represent the tree species of
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BOROKO:
Foundation: 1944.
Curator: Dr. ANDREW OTENG-AMOAKO (wood structure and
properties).
Staff members: ANNA AGLUA, Senior Technical Officer; JOHN BORI, Senior Technical Officer.
Collection: 13,000 specimens, 250 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, at LAE Herbarium.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,000 slides; Slides for loan, by special arrangement only.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: A wood collection known as the "W" series totals 3,000-odd specimens of which only 400 are supported by botanical vouchers. All have been determined microscopically to generic level and in case of voucher specimens, to species level.
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BULOLO: Bulolo
Herbarium.
Foundation: 1965.
Collection: About 7,000 specimens, about 300 genera.
Specialisation: Mainly
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 16,000; Proportion of
wood specimens associated with herbarium vouchers unknown, but most are held at
the Forest Products Research Centre, Boroko (
Samples for sectioning: Yes, but prefer that all
requests be made to Forest Products Research Centre, Boroko (
Microscope slides: Yes; 200 slides; Slides not for
loan, for internal instructional purposes only.
Exchange: Duplicates of wood specimens are only distributed with the duplicates of herbarium specimens.
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LAE:
Foundation: 1944.
Curator: J.R. CROFT (oil botany).
Collection: 8,500 specimens, about 1,000 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 275,000; 100%.
Samples for sectioning: No, such requests should be sent to the Forest Products Research and Development Centre, Boroko (PMPw).
Microscope slides: No, all slides transferred to the
Forest Products Research and Development Centre (PMPw).
Remarks: All wood research is conducted at the Forest Products Research and Development Centre, Boroko. The LAE herbarium curates all voucher specimens.
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Foundation: 1932.
Curator: Prof. JIANG XIAOMEI, Master degree (wood science and wood anatomy), xiaomei@forestry.ac.cn.
Staff members: Prof. ZHANG LIFEI from CRIWI, CAF (wood identification and wood science), lifei@forestry.ac.cn.
Collection: More than 20,000 specimens.
Specialisation: More then 70 countries and regions.
Herbarium vouchers: Around 2,000 vouchers, but these have been transferred to the Research Institute of Forestry now; Around 10%
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; More than 30,000 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: From
Catalogue: Yes, as hard copy.
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GUANGZHOU: Wood Anatomy
Section, Botanical Laboratories, Department of Biology, Sun Yat-Sen University,
(SYSw), Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
(outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1981.
Staff members: Ms. HUANG GUI-LING (plant anatomy); Professor HO TIEN-XIAN (wood anatomy).
Collection: About 1,800 specimens, about 250 genera and up to 1,000 species.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No; But vouchers are housed in the
South China Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica,
Samples for sectioning: Available in the near future.
Microscope slides: Yes; about 300 slides; Slides not
for loan.
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Foundation: 1957.
Curator: Mr. SU ZHONG-HAI, Engineer (wood
classification, properties, and utilisation).
Staff members: Mrs. TAN QUI-ZHU, Assistant Engineer.
Collection: 2,212 specimens, about 600 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 2,000 species; all
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 342 species; Slides not for
loan.
Exchange: Yes, a few. Available: Tropical and
subtropical
Remarks: The collections are divided among three main
groups: 968
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Foundation: 1948.
Curator: Prof. WEI GUANG-YANG (wood anatomy and
identification).
Staff members: Prof. KE BING FAN (mechanical properties of wood, founder of the wood collection).
Collection: 4,072 specimens, 457 genera.
Specialisation: Eastern and southern
Herbarium vouchers: There are about 2,700 voucher specimens for Chinese woods; Vouchers are not maintained for foreign woods but records are kept showing the source of the wood specimens, identifier, etc.; about 66%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 7,400 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Eastern and southern
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Foundation: 1952.
Curator: Prof. PAN BIAO (wood anatomy), pan.biao@163.com, panbiao@njfu.com.cn .
Staff members: Prof. ITOH TAKAO (wood anatomy); Prof. XU YONG-JI (wood anatomy); Prof. LI DA-GANG (utilization of biomass material); Associate professor LUO JIA-YAN; XU KUI-WU; ZHANG YAO-LI (wood anatomy, wood property); Lecturer LUO ZHEN-FU (wood preservation); Assistant researcher ZHAI SHENG-CHENG (wood anatomy).
Collection: 30,000 specimens, 650 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers:
There is a separate herbarium xylarium in Nanjing Forestry University campus, and College of Forestry & Environment is in charge of it.
Important collections: Wood collections originated from Hainan province, Shaanxi province, Guangxi province, Yunnan province, Sichuan province in China.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 17,000 slides; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes, wood specimens in 120 different species, from over 70 genera, can be used for exchange. Available: Chinese woods. Wanted: Woods from South America.
Catalogue: Yes, Excel database is available. All wood collections and microscope slides are included.
Remarks: Many imported commercial timbers in China have been collected since 1921. Lab has undertaken joint research with museums in China. Some wooden objects from famous excavated sites have been identified, like ZHENG He ships of the Ming dynasty.
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SHENYANG: Wood Research
Group, Institute of Forestry and Pedology, Academia Sinica, (IFPw), P.O. Box 417, Shenyang, Lisoning, People's Republic of China. (outdated-1988).
Curator: Prof.
Staff members: LU HONG-RUA (wood structure); GUO DE-RONG (wood structure).
Collection: 416 specimens, 185 genera.
Specialisation: Northeast, central-south, and
southwest
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YANGLING: Timber
Research Laboratory, Northwestern
Foundation: 1951.
Curator: Prof. WUANG
Staff members: Mr. AN PAI-JUN (timber technology); Mr. CHOW LI (wood science engineer).
Collection: 1,200 specimens.
Specialisation: Northwest provinces of
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 20%
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; more than 200 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes.
Remarks: Exchange of wood specimens, microscope slides, and information will be appreciated.
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COLLEGE: Anatomy and
Dendrology Section, Materials Properties Evaluation Division,
Foundation: 1954. The collection consists mostly of original and duplicate authentic woods from the collection of the Philippine Bureau of Forestry which was started in 1901. The collection was then turned over to the then Forest Products Research Laboratory now the Forest Products Research and Development Institute. The wood samples were salvaged from the fires during World War II.
Curator: Dr. RAMIRO P. ESCOBIN, Supervising Science Research Specialist and Chief, Anatomy and Dendrology Section (plant systematics, dendrology, anatomy), fprdi@laguna.net, rpescobin@yahoo.com.
Staff members: Dr. WILFREDO M. AMERICA (wood anatomy and identification), fprdi@laguna.net; Forester DOMINADOR S. ALONZO (structure-property relations), fprdi@laguna.net; JOSEFINA G. PALISOC (fibre morphology), fprdi@laguna.net.
Collection: About 11,000 specimens, about 900 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes. Present wood collection is
associated with herbarium vouchers housed in
Important collections: E.D. Merrill and A.D.E. Elmer (
Periodical or serial publications: FPRDI Journal; Forest Products Technoflow; FPRDI Timber Series.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, upon request and with approval of the Director and Curator, Forest Products Research and Development Institute.
Microscope slides: Yes; about 6,000 slides; Slides for loan, upon request and approval of the Director & Curator.
Exchange: Yes, but limited. Available: Commercial and
non-commercial woods of the
Catalogue: A catalogue of the wood collection is in hard copy and a computer database is currently being prepared and will be available in the near future.
Remarks: We have conducted a wood exchange programme with about 50 countries throughout the world and to date accumulated about 5,274 specimens representing about 1,000 genera and 182 families.
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ALCOBACA: Departamento
de Tecnologia Fisico-mecanica dos Produtos Florestais, Estacao de
Experimentacao Florestal, (ALCw),
Foundation: 1954.
Collection: 150 specimens, 70 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 100; about 80%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 100 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes.
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LISBON: FLOR, Instituto
de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, FLOR -Florestas e Produtos Florestais, (LISFLw), Dep. Engenharia Florestal, Tapada da Ajuda, 1347-017
Lisboa, Portugal. (updated
Foundation: The first collection was from
Curator: FERNANDA SOUTO BESSA, Master (wood anatomy,
forestry), fbessa@isa.utl.pt,
fernanda.bessa@iict.pt.
Staff members: TERESA QUILHO, Researcher, Ph.D. (wood and bark anatomy, wood identification), terisantos@isa.utl.pt.
Collection: About 4,120 and 2,160 for exchange specimens, total genera unknown.
Specialisation: Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe); South Africa; Asia (India, Indonesia, Timor); America (USA, Venezuela, Brazil); Some of Europe.
Herbarium vouchers: ?.
Important collections: Romero Monteiro (Angola); B. Coster (Netherlands, Australia); Koninklijk Instituut voor Tropen (Netherlands); CIRAD (Guiana); John Terlak (tropical woods).
Periodical or serial publications: See Remarks.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 5,101 slides; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: Hard copy, computer database in preparation.
Remarks: Our wood collection include mainly tropical
woods from ancient Portuguese colonies. Liberato, M.C.; M.C. Freitas, T.
Quilho, J. B. Reis & J. Saporitti. (2002). Essencias Florestais de Angola
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Foundation: 1955.
Collection: 600 specimens, 300 genera.
Specialisation:
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; about 500 slides; Slides not
for loan.
Exchange: Yes, limited. Available: According to
available lists of specimens from
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Foundation: 1957, but there was a timber collection in the Museum founded in 1914.
Curator: CLAUDIO MANUEL BUGALHO SEMEDO.
Staff members: ROGERIO DIAS PEREIRA.
Collection: 4,148 specimens, 1,025 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide, especially tropical forests.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 54,800; Records not kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; very few.
Exchange: Yes. Available: African tropical forests and
Remarks: There is a collection of bark specimens used
to aid tree identification in the field. [This may have been incorporated into LISC -
Jardim Botanico Tropical, at Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical?]
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ST
PETERSBURG: Dendrological Collection, Botanical Museum, Komarov
Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, (LEw), Professor Popov street 2, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russia. (updated
Foundation: 1823.
Curator: Dr. ALEXEI A. OSKOLSKI, Senior Researcher (wood anatomy of apiales), aoskolski@gmail.com.
Staff members: Prof. EUGENIA S. CHAVCHAVADZE, Principal Researcher (comparative and ecological wood anatomy); Ms. EKATERINA L. KOTINA, Junior Researcher (bark anatomy); Ms. SVETLANA B. VOLKOVA (wood anatomy of shrubs and climbers).
Collection: About 14,000 specimens, about 1,400 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide, but especially the former
Herbarium vouchers: No; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 20%
Important collections: V.F. Karvinski (Mexico), K.I.
Maximovicz (Japan, China, Russian Far East), B.A. Krukoff (Brazil), V.A.
Dubianski (California), E. Lobjanidze (Caucasus), M.S. Yakovlev (Ethiopia),
N.A. Avrorin (Vietnam), I.V. Grushvitzky & N.T. Skvortsova (Vietnam).
Website address: http://www.binran.ru/botmus/english/coll/colldendr.htm.
Periodical or serial publications: Botanicheskij Zhurnal.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; about 1,000 slides; Slides for
loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Worldwide, but especially
the former
Catalogue: The computer database is now under construction. Internet site: http://www.binran.ru/botmus/collect/collect2.htm (Russian and English versions available).
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Foundation: 1990.
Curator: Prof. MARION BAMFORD (palaeobotany), marion.bamford@wits.ac.za.
Collection: 2,275 specimens, about 60 genera - work in progress.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Not applicable; 0%
Samples for sectioning: No.
Microscope slides: Yes; Over 5,000 slides; Slides not for
loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Hard copy and computer database.
Remarks: Age range of Upper Carboniferous to Holocene.
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Foundation: 2002.
Curator: Prof. MARION BAMFORD (palaeobotany), marion.bamford@wits.ac.za.
Collection: About 100 specimens, 30 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No; 0%
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: No, slides will be made in the future; Will be for loan; Will be for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: Hard copy and computer database.
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Foundation: 1899 by Conservator, Western Conservancy; continued in 1929 by Forest Products Institute.
Curator: Mrs. STEPHANIE T. COETZEE, Forestry Scientist
(wood anatomy).
Staff members: Mr. R. GROVE, Technical Assistant (sectioning).
Collection: 5,055 specimens.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: In part, most local collections since 1968 accompanied by herbarium vouchers; 300; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 33%.
Important collections: Wood collections have been received from the following: Imperial Institute Collection; Technological Museum, Sydney; Forestry Commission, New South Wales, Sydney; Forest Branch, Victoria, British Columbia; Yale University; Forest Department, Brisbane; Joel Hugo (Mexico); Forest Commission, Melbourne; Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun; C.C. Robertson (Australia); Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, Australia; C.E. Legat (Australia); Tokyo University; Netherlands Embassy, Pretoria (Dutch Indies); Queensland Forest Service, Brisbane; New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse; Bureau of Forestry, Manila; Forest Products Laboratory, Canada; Forest Products Research Laboratory, Princes Risborough; Agriculture and Forestry, Tokyo; Professor Jaccard, Zurich; Divisional Forest Officer, Northern Rhodesia; Forest Department, Kenya; Conservator of Forests, Gold Coast; Director of Forestry, French West Africa; M.H. Scott (West Africa); South African Railways Administration (Gold Coast); O.B. Miller (Bechuanaland); Servico Florestal, Seccao Tecnologia, Brazil; E.E. Loock (Mexican pines); J.H. ter Laak, Amsterdam; Conservator of Forests, Tanganyika; Chicago Natural History Museum; C.W. Scott, Santiago; Smithsonian Institution; Museu Agricola do Ultramar, Portugal; Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Republic of China; Ministry of Agriculture, Poland; W. Mayer, Austria; Abteilung fur Biologische Holzforschung, Austria; B. Goldsmith, Zimbabwe; Wood Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan; E.W. Carls, Oregon.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,670 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: See Remarks. Wanted: General.
Remarks: With respect to exchanges, although the wood specimen division is now situated at the National Timber Research Institute, the sample collection is still housed at the South African Forestry Research Institute. The two institutes cooperate on the basis of wood specimen exchange.
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STELLENBOSCH:
Department of Wood Science,
Foundation: 1933.
Curator: Dr. F.S. MALAN, Senior Lecturer.
Staff members: Mrs. E. WAND, Research Assistant.
Collection: About 1,600 specimens, 1,465 genera.
Specialisation:
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 500 slides; Slides not for loan.
Remarks: Wood specimens wanted from other institutions. Because of the small size of the collection, exchange is not possible; however, specimens will be purchased. Institutions having specimens to sell, are asked to write to the curator.
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MADRID: Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes, (UPMAw), Catedra de Tecnologia de la Madera, Ciudad
Universitaria, s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain.
(updated
Foundation: 1945.
Curator: Prof. Dr. LUIS GARCIA ESTEBAN (anatomy, physical and mechanical properties of wood), luis.garcia@upm.es.
Staff members: Prof. Dra. PALOMA DE PALACIOS DE PALACIOS, (anatomy, physical and mechanical properties of wood), paloma.depalacios@upm.es.
Collection: 1,635 specimens, 651 genera.
Specialisation: Mediterranean area,
Herbarium vouchers:
Yes, only for woods from Canary Islands.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,459 specimens, 665 genera; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Catalogue: Yes, hardcopy, computer database in preparation. The collection database will be accessible on the website in the future.
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MADRID: Instituto
Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Industrias Forestales, (MADRw), Ctra. de la Coruna Km. 7, 28008-Madrid,
Foundation: 1940 (from IX3).
Curator: Mª TERESA LOPEZ DE ROMA (Dipl.), Curator, troma@inia.es.
Collection: 6,420 specimens, 3,680 species, 1,199 genera.
Specialisation: Mainland
Herbarium vouchers: ?.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: ?.
Exchange: Yes.
Catalogue: No.
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Foundation: 1948.
Collection: 3,000-4,000 specimens, 500 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; duplicates in herbarium
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Exchange: Yes, of a limited number of species; these
not always associated with herbarium vouchers. Available:
Remarks: Because space is limited, the wood collection is not easily accessible for the time being.
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STOCKHOLM: SP Technical
Research Institute of
Foundation: 1945. Founded by Endo Peeren who came to
Curator: Today [2007] there is no curator of the collection, and it is discussed if the collection should be kept here in future, when we have no biologist or wood anatomist to take care of it.
Staff members: Charlotte Bjordal, guest researcher at SP Tratek, charlotte.bjordal@sp.se.
Collection: 1,200 specimens, about 300 genera.
Specialisation: Both tropical and Scandinavian timbers.
Herbarium vouchers: No; Some records kept, but very
few.
Samples for sectioning: No.
Microscope slides: Yes; 4,000-5,000 slides; Slides not
for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Unfortunately not. There is a book.
Remarks: From IX3: Boutelje's "Encyclopedia of World Timbers" is based on a card system associated with the collection. The system contains information on about 6,000 species. Editor's note: In IX2, this collection was listed in Wood Technology Department, Swedish Forest Products Research Laboratory. In 1985, the collection of woods formerly housed at the Hortus Botanicus Bergianus was incorporated into SWTw.
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Foundation: Institution founded in 1884.
Collection: 350 specimens, 100 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide, but mostly conifers brought together chiefly by the late Professor R. Florin.
Samples for sectioning: If possible.
Microscope slides: Yes; about 400 (chiefly conifers) slides; Slides for loan.
Remarks: The wood collection consists of about 30 per
cent dry specimens and 70 per cent fluid-preserved specimens. Of the genera,
less than half are angiosperms and more than half gymnosperms, mostly conifers.
No active research on wood of recent plants is presently being carried out in the
Section of Palaeobotany of the
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BIRMENSDORF:
Microscopic slides WSL, Swiss Federal Institute for
Foundation: 1960.
Curator: Prof. Dr. F. H. SCHWEINGRUBER, schweingruber@wsl.ch.
Collection: About 2,000 specimens, about 500 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, but limited.
Microscope slides: Yes; 9,000 specimens and 3,500 species; Slides for loan, limited; Slides for exchange, limited on request.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Only hard copy.
Remarks: The collection is mainly a wood ecological slide collection; See Schweingruber, F.H. (2000), Mikroskopische Holzanatomie, Paul Haupt Bern. It contains all slides related to Schweingruber, F.H. (1990). Anatomy of European woods, Paul Haupt Bern. Included are about 2,000 slides of the xylem of perennial herbs.
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ZURICH: Institut fur
Wald- und Holzforschung, Fachbereich Holzkunde und Holztechnologie,
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, (ZTw),
Foundation: 1957.
Curator: Prof. Dr. H.H. BOSSHARD.
Collection: 6,065 specimens, 1,067 genera.
Specialisation:
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 3,920 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
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TAICHUNG: Department of
Botany, National Museum of Natural Science, (TNMw), 1, Kuan Chien Road, Taichung, Taiwan 40453, Taiwan. (updated
Foundation: 1993. Comprising wood collection, slide collection (including sectioning, whole mount and pollens) and fixed material (pickled/spirit) collection.
Curator: Dr. SHAU-TING CHIU, Associate Curator (functional morphology, vine biology, parasitic plant biology, carnivorous plant biology, and systematics in Loranthaceae, Viscaceae and Caprifoliaceae), stchiu@mail.nmns.edu.tw.
Staff members: Ms. CHUN-
Collection: includes 1,025 wood blocks, 1,792 (3 dimension wood sections), 8,000 (stem sections) and 17,000 (others) microscopic slides and 8,470 fixed specimens, 155 genera and 339 species of wood blocks.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, most deposited in
Important collections: Woods and vines of
Periodical or serial publications: No. The statistics of collection including woods will be published in biannual reports.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 10,000 slides; Slides for loan, it depends; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Woods and lianas of
Catalogue: Yes. Computer database.
Remarks:
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TAIPEI: Herbarium,
Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, (TAIw), 1 Roosevelt Rd., Sec. 4, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan. (updated
Foundation: 1929.
Curator: Dr. CENG-MENG KUO (
Collection: About 50 specimens, about 50 genera.
Specialisation: Woody plants of
Herbarium vouchers: No; No records maintained.
Samples for sectioning: No.
Microscope slides: No.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: No.
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Foundation: 1972.
Collection: 20,000 specimens, 530 genera.
Specialisation:
Exchange: Yes. Available:
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Foundation: 1953.
Collection: 2,617 specimens, 209 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, in Section of Botany, Royal Forest Department; most of the commercial timbers are in the herbarium; 30% of our wood specimens in the collection came from many countries by exchange; about 50% are supported by herbarium vouchers.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,200 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
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Foundation: 1955.
Curator: Prof. Dr. NURGÜN ERDIN (wood anatomy and identification, wood preservation), nurgun@istanbul.edu.tr.
Staff members: Dr. A. DILEK DOGU, Assistant professor (wood anatomy and identification), addogu@istanbul.edu.tr, addogu@yahoo.com.
Collection: 740 specimens (2,410 wood samples in total), 254 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: We maintain records showing where herbarium vouchers are deposited; 90%.
Website address: http://www.orman.istanbul.edu.tr/en/node/2546.
Periodical or serial publications:
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 725 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes only on exchange. Available: Abies bornmulleriana Mattf., Cupressus sempervirens L., Juniperus foetidissima Willd., Juniperus oxicedrus L., Pinus pinea L., Acer campestre L., Acer hyrcanum Fisch. et C.A. Mey., Acer monspessulanum L., Acer platanoides L., Alnus orientalis Decne., Arbutus andrachne L., Betula pubescens Ehrh., Buxus sempervirens L., Castanea sativa Mill., Cornus mas L., Fraxinus oxycarpa Willd., Juglans regia L., Morus nigra L., Pistacia terebinthus L., Platanus occidentalis L., Populus euphratica Oliv., Populus nigra L., Quercus cerris L., Quercus frainetto Ten., Quercus hartwissiana Steven., Quercus ithaburensis Decne. subsp. macrolepis (Kotschy.), Quercus libani Oliver, Quercus robur L., Quercus sessiliflora Sm. var. Pinnatifada sensu Boiss., Tilia platyphyllos Scop., Tilia tomentosa Moench. Wanted: North America, South America, Central America, Asia.
Catalogue: Yes, computer database.
Remarks: Book entitled "The World Woods Collection" published in 1985, by Prof. Dr. A. Yilmaz Bozkurt and Prof. Dr. Nurgün Erdin, gives valuable information on the Xylarium.
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Foundation: 1950.
Staff members: Wood Utilisation Section staff members.
Collection: 282 specimens.
Specialisation:
Periodical or serial publications: Uganda Timber Leaflets.
Samples for sectioning: No, but visiting scientists are welcome to collect as much as they have funds for.
Microscope slides: Yes; 90-95 slides; Slides not for
loan.
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Foundation: About 1970.
Curator: Dr. M. PAT DENNE, Senior Research Fellow, m.p.denne@bangor.co.uk.
Collection: About 4,800 specimens, about 825 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: No.The origin and donor of the
sample is recorded, but no herbarium specimens.
Important collections: G. Stahel (
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; About 1,000 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: A limited number.
Catalogue: Yes, a card index and a computer database.
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Foundation: 1912.
Curator: Dr TIM RICH, Head of Vascular Plants, Department of Biodiversity and Systematic Biology (British vascular plant botany), tim.rich@museumwales.ac.uk.
Collection: About 5,000 specimens, about 650 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide.
Herbarium vouchers: No; No records maintained.
Important collections: Full sets of Nordlinger thin sections (1,102) and Hough's American woods (315), Wheldon and Wesley collection of about 2,000 handling specimens.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 2,000 slides; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Published catalogue: Spears, R. (1997).
Catalogue of Timber Collection,
Remarks: The bulk of the timber collection was
acquired in the 1920s and 1930s primarily through gifts and purchase. Many of
the larger sections were donated by local landowners such as the Earl of
Plymouth whilst smaller handling specimens of tropical hardwoods were donated
by or purchased from timber importers. Some
of the more unusual aspects of the collection include various stages in the
manufacture of sports equipment such as cricket bats and tennis racquets from
producers based in
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GARSTON,
Foundation: 1926.
Curator: Mr. G.L. MOORE, Retired (consultant wood technology), mooreg@bre.co.uk.
Staff members: Dr. P. BONFIELD, Centre Director, bonfieldp@bre.co.uk; Mr. G. COOPER, Consultant (wood technology), cooperg@bre.co.uk.
Collection: Over 30,000 specimens, about 2,500 (estimated) genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide, but particularly rich in
timbers of tropical
Herbarium vouchers: No; Records kept of vouchers
deposited elsewhere when available; about 30% (estimated).
Important collections: Fujioka (Japan 1929); Vigne (Ghana, c. 1930-1945); Krukoff (West Africa, Brazil, Sumatra, 1932-1934); Desch (Peninsular Malaysia, 1933-1939); Walker (Soloman Islands, 1946); most of the timber collections of the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, and the Cambridge School of Forestry including the collections of Elwes & Henry and Herbert Stone; authentic collections made by the Forest Departments of: Burma (1920-1930), Uganda (1933-date), Kenya (1936-date), Guyana (1942-date), Sri Lanka (1944), Sabah (1950-date), Sarawak (1935-date); and others.
Samples for sectioning: Please enquire.
Microscope slides: Yes; 16,000 (estimated) slides; Slides for loan, please enquire; Slides for exchange, please enquire.
Exchange: Please enquire. Available: Please enquire. Wanted: Any.
Catalogue: Yes, hard copy, but not publicly available.
Remarks: The collection was founded at the Forest
Products Research Laboratory at Princes Risborough, which was later to become
the Princes Risborough Laboratory of the Building Research Establishment. The
Laboratory, with the collection, was transferred in 1988 to its' present
location, the main site of the Building Research Establishment at
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Foundation: 1847.
Curator: Dr. MARK NESBITT, Collection Manager, m.nesbitt@kew.org.
Staff members: see under K-Jw.
Collection: 33,500 specimens, 3,205 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; There are about 7 million specimens held in RBG Kew's Herbarium; Most woods collected since the 1970s are vouchered; about 4,000 specimens, about 12%
Important collections: J.S. Gamble (Indian woods, 1,400); Natural History Museum (1,700 woods transferred in 1983); International exhibitions (about 1,800 specimens) including: Great Exhibition (1851), International Exhibition (1862), Colonial and Indian exhibition (1886); Japan-British exhibition (1910), British Empire Exhibition (1924), and Paris exhibitions (1855, 1878, 1900); J.B. Worthington (Sri Lanka, 650); R. Schodde & L.A. Craven (New Guinea, 500); G. Stahel (Surinam, 500); George Loddiges (Brazil, Jamaica etc, collected 1790-1810, 415 woods); Ken Ogata (Brunei woods, 500); Woods from the collection of the Duchess of Portland; Great Storm of 1987 (Kew and Wakehurst Place, 300).
Website address: www.kew.org/science/ecbot/
Samples for sectioning: Yes, Contact Curator; sample request form to be completed in advance of visit.
Microscope slides: See K-Jw.
Exchange: No. Wanted: All, but especially taxa not represented in the collection; trees of conservation concern, including CITES-listed species; specimens with bark; shrubs; fuelwood.
Catalogue: Comprehensive database; simplified version available online at: http://epic.kew.org/
Remarks: The wood collection at
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Foundation: 1876.
Curator: Dr. PETER GASSON (systematic wood anatomy, tree biology), p.gasson@kew.org.
Staff members: Dr. PAULA RUDALL, Head (micromorphology and reproductive biology), p.rudall@kew.org; Ms. ANNA LYNCH, M.Sc. (Plant Micromorphology Bibliographic Database, monocots), a.lynch@kew.org; Ms. MARY GREGORY (micromorphology), m.gregory@kew.org; Dr. HAZEL WILKINSON (dicot anatomy), h.wilkinson@kew.org; Dr. DAVID CUTLER (micromorphology), d.cutler@kew.org; Dr. MARY-CLARE SHEAHAN (dicot anatomy), m.sheahan@kew.org.
Collection: About 40,000 slides, about 2,250 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; Most recent slides are from vouchered material, and there is improving cross-referencing between this collection, the Economic Botany collection and the Herbarium.; The Kew Herbarium holds c.7 million specimens.; unknown proportion of slides is linked to Herbarium specimens.
Important collections: See Kw entry.
Website address: www.kew.org.
Periodical or serial publications: We publish our research in a wide range of scientific journals and in books; Kew Bulletin.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, see Kw.
Microscope slides: Yes. The collection of slides was originally for the preparation and revision of Anatomy of the Dicotyledons by C.R. Metcalfe and L. Chalk and Anatomy of the Monocotyledons by various authors and is used for research and as a reference collection for identification work. Most flowering plant families and Gymnosperms are represented. The main collection of slides is arranged alphabetically in families, and the wood slides are duplicated in a separate section arranged according to geographical origin. Other plant parts are also represented, including leaves, stems, twigs, woody roots, barks, fibres, medicinal plants and monocotyledons.; The whole collection numbers about 100,000 slides, of which about 40,000 are of woods, and is being continuously enlarged.; Slides not for loan, researchers can visit to consult the collection.; Slides for exchange, some duplicate slides are available for exchange.
Exchange: See Kw. Available: See Kw. Wanted: Worldwide from all families. We aim to maintain an extensive coverage of taxa as comprehensively as possible.
Catalogue: Yes, the slide collection is being documented in an Access database. New slides are added as they are made and the backlog is being worked on by volunteers, supervised by Mary Gregory.
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Foundation: 1851.
Curator: Dr. LEANDER WOLSTENHOLME, Head of Botany, leander.wolstenholme@nmgm.org.
Staff members: Ms. DONNA YOUNG, Collection Manager (Botany), donna.young@nmgm.org; Ms. WENDY ATKINSON, Assistant Curator (Botany), wendy.atkinson@nmgm.org.
Collection: 10,662 documented items, several thousand undocumented specimens, 640 genera. Unfortunately the database does not allow these data to be readily extracted.
Specialisation: Tropical
Herbarium vouchers: No; Although there are numerous
associated vouchers, these are mostly in the Kew (K) and Natural History Museum
(BM) herbaria. Several hundred in all, e.g. Bagshawe (
Important collections: Nordlinger's Holzquerschnitte; Hough's American Woods; British Museum (Natural History) reserve timber collection; no major additions have been made since IX3.
Periodical or serial publications: No periodicals, but
Samples for sectioning: Possibly, on application.
Microscope slides: Yes; 680 documented in the
database; a similar number of undocumented slides; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: There is a computerised catalogue held in
Access. A published catalogue of Economic Botany collections, including some
samples (e.g. bark) derived from woody plants, exists: "Handlist of the
Economic Botany Collections at
Remarks: It has recently been rehoused in a new store
as part of a major refurbishment of
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Remarks: The Department has a small though adequately
representative collection of uniform-sized samples of wood which is housed in
bench drawers in the General Herbarium. This collection is arranged
systematically (under the Bentham & Hooker system) and is available to
visitors if they wish to see wood of some particular species. We have also a
much larger miscellaneous collection of odd-sized wood samples, but this is
presently not available for reference owing to the lack of storage facilities.
IX4 Editors note: Wood collection has been dispersed to
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Foundation:
Curator: ADRIAN HOLLOWAY, Collection Manager, enquiry@horniman.ac.uk.
Collection: 170 specimens from
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Catalogue: www.horniman.ac.uk.
Remarks: The Museum would like to accumulate a general
collection of woods mainly of economic species, principally for educational
purposes and as a reference for art conservationists and restorers. Woods used
in musical instruments and for ethnographic artifacts are especially desired.
The collection of 170 specimens now held from
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Foundation: 1924.
Curator: Dr STEPHEN HARRIS, Curator, stephen.harris@plantsciences.oxford.ac.uk.
Collection: 24,381 wood blocks specimens, 2,719 genera.
Specialisation: The Commonwealth.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, FHO; about 250,000 specimens; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 44%
Important collections: Desch (Malaysia), Gamble (India), Vigne (Ghana), Fanshawe (Belize), Cooper (Panama, Liberia), Molfino (Argentina), Krukoff (Sumatra, Brazil), Walker (British Solomon Islands), Wood (Sabah/Sarawak), Breteler (Venezuela, Cameroon), Cuatrecasas (Columbia), Anderson (Sarawak).
Website address: herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/herbaria_pages/xylarium.html.
Periodical or serial publications: Oxford Plant Systematics - published yearly and has occasional articles on wood.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 13,123 slides; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: The Commonwealth.
Catalogue: Computer Access database for whole collection.
Remarks: Details of the genera and collectors represented in the wood collection are given on the Herbaria website (http://www.plants.ox.ac.uk/).
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Foundation: 1921.
Curator: Dr. WILLIAM R. ANDERSON, Director, Curator of
Vascular Plants and Prof. of Botany (taxonomy of Malpighiaceae, flora of
Collection: About 2,500 specimens.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 800,000.
Important collections: H.H. Bartlett (
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
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Foundation: 1944.
Curator: Dr. PATRICIA K. HOLMGREN, Director of the Herbarium.
Remarks: The wood collections of Bassett Maguire and
collaborators have been distributed to the Smithsonian Institution (USw), Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies [now housed at the U.S. Forest
Products Laboratory (MADw)], The College of Environmental Science and Forestry,
Syracuse University (BCWw), and the State University of Utrecht (Uw). The wood
collections of Ghillean T. Prance and collaborators have been distributed to
the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da
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Foundation: About 1938.
Curator: The Director,
Collection: Over 31,000 specimens.
Specialisation: General, but strong in tropical
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; In the Harvard University Herbaria and elsewhere; between 60 and 70%.
Important collections: Borneo and Sarawak forestry departments; Jesup (U.S.A.); Krukoff (Brazil); A.C. Smith (Fiji); Brass; Surinam woods; E.H. Wilson; J.G. Jack; C.S. Sargent.
Periodical or serial publications: Journal of the Arnold Arboretum.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, reasonable requests.
Microscope slides: Yes; 35,000 slides; Slides for loan, by arrangement only.
Exchange: Yes, some.
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Foundation: 1960 (general herbarium 1927).
Curator: SULA VANDERPLANK, Administrative Curator, svanderplank@rsabg.org.
Staff members: STEVE
Collection: 7,500 specimens, 2,500 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, RSA - POM Herbarium, http://www.rsabg.org/collections/120; 1,200,000 total specimens; 90%.
Important collections: Carlquist (
Website address: www.rsabg.org/collections/120.
Periodical or serial publications: Aliso.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; more than 4,500 wood anatomy slides from Sherwin Carlquist, and the recently acquired Rudy Schmidt slide collection.; Slides for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: Yes. Available: From areas of specialisation noted above. Wanted: Specimens from taxa not ordinarily considered for inclusion in wood collections; woody material from non-tree species preferred.
Catalogue: No.
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DAVIS: University of
California - Davis, (DAVw), Section
of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA
95616 USA, USA. (updated
Foundation: About 1980.
Curator: Dr. DEBORAH CANINGTON, Curator, dkcanington@ucdavis.edu.
Staff members: SUSAN NICHOL, M.Sc., sanichol@ucdavis.edu; LESLEY HAMAMOTO, B.Sc., llhamamoto@ucdavis.edu.
Collection: About 600 specimens, Unknown.
Specialisation: Worldwide.
Herbarium vouchers: We do have a herbarium, but no
vouchers for the wood collection.; Herbarium records not maintained, the wood
collection was donated to us and we have added to it over the years.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: We have some slides used for
classes, but not connected to the wood collection.
Exchange: Very few.
Catalogue: Hard copy, cross-indexed to order, family and common names.
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GAINSVILLE: University of
Florida Herbarium Wood Collection, University of Florida Herbarium, (FLASw), 379 Dickinson Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History,
PO Box 110575, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0575, USA. (updated
Foundation: 1938.
Curator:
Collection: About 15,700 specimens.
Specialisation: Worldwide, but especially the tropics.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 435,000 specimens (about 250,000 vascular plants, 168,500 byophytes, lichens & algae, 15,700 wood collections). This does not include holdings in the affiliated Paleobotany Collection; There are vouchers in the FLAS vascular plant collection but only a few of these are correlated with the wood collection in our database. We have a card file with information on taxon, collector and locality data. Many of the wood samples are duplicates from the Smithsonian and we have the Smithsonian computer records on those. Other sets are likely vouchered and files associated with each kept, probably in the file cabinet in the wood collection room. According to IX3 there are records for the place of deposit of vouchers.; unknown proportion.
Important collections: A.F. Wilson; Commercial woods used in the U.S.; Commercial woods (U.S. National Lumber Association); Commercial woods of Brazil, Chile, Surinam, and Japan; Japanese Taiwanian woods; A.F. Wilson miscellaneous woods and woods of Korea; Milton F. Scott wood collection (about 6,700) - a carefully documented, diverse assemblage of specimens. Those specimens were presented by him to the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida and are now housed as part of the University of Florida Herbarium wood collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History; G.C. Bucher, Sr. wood collection (about 1,930); New York State College of Foresty at Syracuse University, Project I wood samples, with fairly detailed accession logs for the collection and an index card file with information on the taxon, collector, locality and source.
Website address: www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/flaswood.htm.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, We will loan the wood block for the researcher to take a sample.
Microscope slides: Yes; 1,000 slides; Slides for loan; Probably not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Index card files with information on the taxon, collector, locality and source. A partial computer database is being worked on but lacks staff to complete it.
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Foundation: 1889.
Collection: 4,400 specimens.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 405,900; a large proportion.
Important collections: J. F. Rock, Hosmer (
Periodical or serial publications: Occasional Papers
of the
Samples for sectioning: To meet this need, duplicates of most of the specimens have been placed in the S.J. Record Memorial Collection (now at MADw).
Exchange: See above under Samples/or sectioning.
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Foundation: Present composite collection organised in 1970; Field Museum of Natural History (Fw) specimens date from 1896; The S. J. Record collection (Yw) dates from 1905 and the Forest Products Laboratory collection (MADw) from 1911.
Curator: Dr. REGIS B. MILLER, Project Leader, Center for Wood Anatomy Research (identification of native and foreign woods, anatomical research on Leguminosae, Flacourtiaceae (now Achariaceae and Salicaceae), and Vochysiaceae), rmiller1@facstaff.wisc.edu.
Staff members: Dr. MICHAEL C. WIEMANN, Botanist,
Center for Wood Anatomy Research (identification of native and foreign woods,
effects of growing conditions on wood anatomy and properties),
mwiemann@fs.fed.us;
Collection: 105,000 (MADw 49,000; SJRw 56,000) specimens, about 3,500 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide, but especially strong in
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; The herbarium has transferred
to the University of Wisconsin-Madison (WIS), but will remain separately as
Important collections: M. Acosta-Solis (Ecuador); British Guiana Forest Department; G.P. Cooper (Liberia, Panama, Costa Rica); J. Cuatrecasas (Colombia); H. Curran (Argentina, Brazil, Philippines, Venezuela); Desch (Malaya); A. Ducke (Brazil); A. Dugand (Colombia); Forest Research Institute (Malaya): Gamble (India); H. Irwin (Brazil); Janssonius (Java); M.K. Jesup (U.S.A.); Koorders (Java); B.A. Krukoff (Brazil, Bolivia, Africa, Sumatra); C.E. Lane-Poole (New Guinea); B. Maguire, et al. (Venezuela, British Guiana, Brazil); Nee (Panama); New York State College of Forestry, Project I (U.S.A); H. Pittier (Panama Canal Zone, Venezuela); Pullen, et al (New Guinea, Bougainville); R. Reitz & R Klein (Brazil); C.S. Sargent (U.S.A.); Schunke (Peru); A.C. Smith (Fiji, British Guiana); H.H. Smith (U.S.A.); G. Stahel (Surinam); W.L. Stern & G.K. Brizicky (Florida Keys, U.S.A.); W.L. Stern & K.L. Chambers (Panama; Florida Keys, U.S.A); U.S. Forest Products Laboratory PL-480 Project (Peru, Guatemala); Vigne (Gold Coast); H.N. Whitford (Brazil, Colombia, Cuba); Ll. Williams (Mexico, Venezuela, Peru).
Website address: www2.fpl.fs.fed.us.
Periodical or serial publications: Forest Products Laboratory Research Papers and Notes.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 35,000 slides, including the acquired Vernon Cheadle bark microscope slides which represent over 300 genera; Slides not for loan; Slides for exchange, in limited quantities.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Mostly
Catalogue: The MADw wood collection is on a computer database and available at http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us. A database for the SJRw collection is being developed.
Remarks: The Madison Forest Products Laboratory wood
collection is a composite of specimens originally from three separate
institutions: the original Madison Forest Products Laboratory collections
(MADw); Chicago Field Museum of Natural History collection (Fw); and the New
Haven Samuel James Record collection from the Yale School of Forestry (Yw). The
field collections and the original Forest Products Laboratory collections are
now integrated into a single collection which bears the designation MADw. The
Record collection is maintained in
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Foundation: 1994.
Curator: TIMOTHY HEGGATON B.Sc. Botany, theggaton@tampabay.rr.com.
Collection: 7,400 species.
Specialisation: Worldwide.
Herbarium vouchers: No; some have herbarium vouchers stored at other institutions; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; 40%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes, I have an extensive list of worldwide wood specimens from my personal xylarium for exchange. Size is 3 x 6 x ½ inch. A list will be sent by email upon request.
Microscope slides: No; Slides not for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: No.
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Foundation: 1906.
Curator: Dr. MICHAEL A. VINCENT, Curator (plant taxonomy), vincenma@muohio.edu.
Collection: 20,000 specimens, unknown genera at the moment.
Specialisation: Worldwide .
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 650,000; unknown proportion of slides is linked to Herbarium specimens.
Important collections: Charles Heimsch, Thomas K. Wilson.
Website address: www.units.muohio.edu/herbarium/.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes of many, but not all; 10,000 slides; Slides for loan; Possibly for exchange, please enquire.
Exchange: Yes. Available: Worldwide.
Catalogue: Yes, card file. The entire catalog will be entered into our main herbarium database in the near future, and will be available on our web page.
Remarks: The microscope slide collection has been assembled chiefly from research materials contributed by or exchanged with many different investigators, such as B.G. Cumbie, W. Dickinson , C. Heimsch, R.A. Howard, R. Keating, W.L. Stern, T.K. Wilson. Families with largest representation include Icacinaceae, Anacardiaceae, Burseraceae, Meliaceae, Sapindaceae, and Myristicaceae. A separate collection of microscope slides of herbaceous stems and roots of over 700 species is also housed in the microscope slide collection.
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PORTLAND: The Jesup
Collection of Woods of North America, World Forestry Center, (NYJw), 4033 S.W. Canyon Road, Portland, Oregon 97221, USA. (outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1890.
Curator: JOHN L. BLACKWELL, Executive Director.
Collection: 505 specimens.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, at the Arnold Arboretum; 100%.
Samples for sectioning: Perhaps, at cost to the researcher.
Remarks: The
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RALEIGH: The David A.
Kribs Wood Collection, Department of Wood and Paper Science, College of Natural
Resources, North Carolina State University, (PACw), Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-8005, USA. (updated
Foundation: 1925 (when founded at
Curator: Prof. Emeritus Dr. ELISABETH WHEELER (fossil wood), Elisabeth_Wheeler@ncsu.edu.
Staff members: Associate Prof. Dr. ILONA PESZLEN (wood quality).
Collection: About 32,000 specimens (of these about 20,000 are sectioning blocks that R.A. Scott of the U.S. Geologic Survey had from Harvard collection and transferred to NC State), about 2,500 genera.
Specialisation: worldwide, emphasis on
Important collections: Jack Wolfe (Fiji, New Caledonia, Puerto Rico; all with detailed ecological information and vouchers deposited at MO); C.S. Sargent's 1888 10th Census (U.S.); State University of New York at Syracuse's Project I (US woods); Ll. Williams (Mexico, Peru, Venezuela).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 4,000 slides; Slides for loan, duplicates; Slides for exchange, mostly of US woods.
Wanted:
Catalogue: Hard copy.
Remarks: Most of the collection represents woods collected by David A. Kribs and used as the basis for his book "Commercial Foreign Woods on the American Market". There are samples and sections of collections of Cretaceous-Tertiary fossil woods associated with the collection.
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RICHMOND: University of
California Wood Collection, Forest Products Laboratory, University of
California, (UCw), 1301
South 46th Street, Richmond, California 94804, USA. (outdated-1988).
Foundation: 1925, 1926.
Curator: Dr. ARNO P. SCHNIEWIND, Prof. of Forestry
(mechanical behaviour of wood, conservation of wood artifacts).
Staff members: NELLY C.
Collection: 12,000 specimens;, 1,180 genera.
Specialisation: Worldwide.
Herbarium vouchers: No; But records are kept of herbarium vouchers deposited elsewhere; 25%.
Important collections: B.A. Krukoff (Brazil, Sumatra); Ll. Williams (Peru); R. Reitz & R. Klein (Brazil); W.R. Barbour (Haiti); M. Fujioka (Japan, Korea); H.H. Bartlett-Rahmat (Sumatra); Bureau of Forestry, Manila (Philippines, Malaya); North Borneo Forest Department, Sandakan (Borneo); C.S. Sargent (U.S.A.); Project I, New York State College of Forestry (North America).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 2,500 slides; Slides for loan, limited to duplicates.
Exchange: Yes. Available:
Remarks: The entire wood collection was moved from its
original location in the Forestry Department on the
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Foundation: 1939.
Curator: Dr. JOHN K. FRANCIS, Soil Scientist.
Staff members: CARLOS DOMINGUEZ, Biological Technician.
Collection: 1,844 specimens.
Specialisation: Tropics.
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 3,000; 18%, but only
those specimens from the
Remarks: The collection is currently inactive, but would be made available to visiting scientists.
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Foundation: Collection was reportedly established about 1920.
Curator: Dr. CAROLINE A.E. STROMBERG, Curator of Paleobotany (evolution of grasslands and Late Cretaceous paleoecology), caestrom@u.washington.edu.
Staff members: Mr. THOMAS A DILLHOFF, Curatorial
Associate (Paleogene and Neogene paleobotany of northwestern
Collection: About 5,500 specimens, estimated at about 820 genera and 2,400 species.
Specialisation: North American temperate woods, tropical hardwoods from South America and Asia; Woods from the island of Borneo are especially well represented.
Herbarium vouchers: No.
Important collections: None known of at this time.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides:
Yes. Approximately 200 thin sections representing 100 species of mainly North American wood types.; Slides not for loan; Slides not for exchange.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: An index card catalogue accompanies the collection. Efforts are in progress to inventory the collection and transfer the catalogue to a computer database.
Remarks: Collection is in the process of being organized, inventoried, and databased. About 50% complete as of December 2009.
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SYRACUSE: Harry Philip
Brown Memorial Wood Collection, College of Environmental Science and Forestry,
State University of New York, (BWCw), Syracuse,
New York 13210, USA. (outdated-1988).
Foundation: Prior to 1925.
Curator: Dr. ROBERT W. MEYER, Prof. and Curator of the
Wood Collection (wood anatomy, physical property relations, and identification).
Staff members: Dr. CARL DE ZEEUW, Professor and Curator Emeritus.
Collection: About 40,000 specimens, about 2,100 genera.
Specialisation: Best representation is in the
Neotropics, but there are strong collections from North and
Herbarium vouchers: Yes, but only for the North American special collection known as Wood Technology Project I and a small number of other special items; 1,000; Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; about 97%.
Important collections: Krukoff (Africa, Brazil, Sumatra); Maguire et al. (Guayana Highlands); Prance (Amazon Basin); Mori (northern South America); Wood Technology Project I (North America); A.C. Smith (Guiana, Fiji); Pittier (Venezuela, Panama); Cuatrecasas (Colombia); Kanehira (Micronesia, east Asia); Lecomte (Madagascar, Indochina); Gamble (India); Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestal (Mexico); Desch (Malaya); Ducke (Brazil); Rimbach (Ecuador); Williams (Peru, Mexico); Stahel (Surinam); Bena (French Guiana).
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 5,000 slides; Slides for loan, limited.
Exchange: Yes; prefer exchange for other authenticated material. Available: North America (Project I, about 800); Amazon Basin, Krukoff and Prance collections (about 1,500); Maguire et al (Guayana Highlands, about 1,500); Central America, miscellaneous collections. Wanted: Africa, southern South America, Southeast Asia, New Caledonia, Lecythidaceae, especially Careya, Crateranthus, Chydenanthus, Foetidia, Napoleonaea, and Abdulmajidia.
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Foundation: 1915.
Curator: GEORGE F. RUSSELL, Collections Manager, russellr@si.edu.
Staff members: Dr. RICHARD H. EYDE, Curator (floral morphology and systematics of angiosperms).
Collection: 40,000 specimens, 3,033 genera.
Specialisation: General, but largely tropical
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; 4,210,000 (including
specimens of all kinds in all groups of plants); In the
Important collections: B.A. Krukoff (Brazil, West Africa, Sumatra); College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York at Syracuse (U.S.A.); A.F. Wilson (worldwide); J. Cuatrecasas (Colombia); J.E. Ebinger; H. Pittier; W.L. Stern, K.L. Chambers, J.D. Dwyer & J.E. Ebinger (panama); Stern & S. Carlquist (Hawaii); Stern & D. Wasshausen (Dominica); M. Acosta-Solis (Ecuador); W.L. Abbott (Dominican Republic); K.L. Chambers (western U.S.A., Dominica); H.N. Whitford & L.R. Stadmiller (Guatemala-Honduras boundary); S.J. Record & H. Kuylen (Guatemala); R.M. King (Mexico, Thailand, Guatemala, Colombia); A. Ducke, R. Reitz (Brazil); Maguire et al. (Brazil and Guyana); Schunke, Ll. Williams, F. Woytkowski (Peru); G.S. Miller (Jamaica); B. Maguire (Surinam, Venezuela); J.J. Wurdack & L.S. Adderly (Venezuela); W.R. Barbour; E.C. Leonard (Haiti); H.H. Bartlett-Rahmat (Sumatra); G.H. Pickles (Sarawak); Stern (Philippines); C.S.I.R.O., Australia (West New Guinea); L.A. Craven and R. Schodde (New Guinea); Fan Memorial Institute (China); Dutton (Pacific Islands).
Website address: www.botany.si.edu/colls/wood.
Periodical or serial publications: Smithsonian Contributions to Botany (Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium has been discontinued); Atoll Research Bulletin.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; 5,000 slides; Slides for loan.
Exchange: No duplicate hand samples available for exchange. Wanted: Well-documented specimens; worldwide, all taxa.
Remarks: The wood collection has been moved to a
storage facility in suburban
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WINTERTHUR: The Professor
E.S. Harrar Wood Collection, The Henry Francis du Pont
Foundation: 1974.
Curator: HARRY A. ALDEN, Wood Researcher.
Staff members: CHARLES F. HUMMEL, Curator, The H.F. du
Pont
Collection: 8,799 specimens, 1,156 genera.
Specialisation:
Records kept of vouchers deposited elsewhere; about 35%.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Remarks: The bulk of the
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Foundation: 1940 (from IX3).
Curator: There is no assigned curator to this
collection, it is cared for by the Director of the National Herbarium: Dra.
LEYDA RODRIGUEZ, Directora del Herbario Nacional (floristics and taxonomy of
vascular plants).
Collection: 2,397 specimens, 87 genera.
Specialisation:
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; unknown; unknown proportion.
Important collections: Williams (Guayana), Steyermak (
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: No.
Exchange: No.
Catalogue: Not at this time, maybe in the future.
Remarks: VEN wood collection is an important and historic collection. It is organized in alphabetical order of families, genera and species. We want to catalogue and organize it better.
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MERIDA: Xiloteca MERw,
Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, (MERw), Ingenieria Forestal, Laboratorio de Anatomia de Maderas,
Merida, Venezuela. (updated
Foundation: 1959.
Curator: Prof. WILLIAMS J. LEON H., Mg.Sc. (wood anatomy), wleon@ula.ve.
Staff members: Prof. JOSE L. MELANDRI P., Mg.Sc. (wood anatomy), melandri@ula.ve; Prof. NARCISANA ESPINOZA DE PERNIA, Mg.Sc. (wood anatomy), nepernia@ula.ve.
Collection: About 20,000 specimens between permanent and exchange collections, about 1,000 genera and 3,000 species.
Specialisation: Samples from different countries of
the world, but specialises in woods from
Herbarium vouchers: Yes; about 50%
Periodical or serial publications: Acta Botanica Venezuelica, Revista Forestal Venezolana, Pittieria.
Samples for sectioning: Yes.
Microscope slides: Yes; Slides for loan; Slides for exchange.
Exchange: Yes, we have an exchange collection If one specimen has five samples or more, the additional samples used for exchange.
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