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Herbarium

Welcome to the Digitized Herbarium Collections of Northfield Mount Hermon School

THE NMH COLLECTION

Herbaria are collections of pressed identified plant specimens. The NMH collection contains plants collected by Carol Knox (Botany teacher) and her students over the last 35 years. Because date and collection information are available with each record, the herbarium database is a resource of information about the flowering and fruiting times of plants from the Northeastern US. The collection currently contains 850 specimens.

 

 

 

Each record includes a digital scan of the pressed plant as well as complete collection and identification information. The collection is a rich source of information about the plants from the campus and other areas of the Northeastern United States. The Herbarium Collection is located in Cutler Science Center.

 

 

 

THE PAUL BOWMAN COLLECTION

Paul Bowman attended Mount Hermon School, graduating in 1918; he returned as a chemistry teacher in 1936 and taught until 1963 when he retired and became a library archivist at NMH (a position he held until 1981). One of his great loves and hobbies was nature study, and he planted many patches of wildflowers in the Mount Hermon woods. He enjoyed collecting and identifying wildflowers; some of his pressed specimens from the early part of this century are located in the archives. Scans and information about the plants in his collection are available here in digital form.