Pennsylvania State University Herbarium (PAC)
The Pennsylvania Agricultural College (PAC) Herbarium represents one of the oldest natural history collections at Penn State University. Established in 1859 with 3,000 specimens donated by Penn State’s first president Evan Pugh, the collection has since grown to over 100,000 items including mounted voucher specimens, seed vials and jars, and specimen jars which hold a portion of the algal collection.
Director: Claude dePamphilis, cwd3@psu.edu
Curator: Sarah Chamberlain, sjm20@psu.edu
Homepage: https://sites.psu.edu/herbarium/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 512d3c7f-fb50-4ef3-b2fd-4e1847b513fc
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/PAC_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 87,491 specimen records
- 20,056 (23%) georeferenced
- 87,481 (100%) with images (87,577 total images)
- 72,610 (83%) identified to species
- 207 families
- 1,385 genera
- 5,810 species
- 5,946 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
