The John N. Couch Biology Library, Botany Section houses a collection of various herbaria on microfiche. These collections are available for use in the Botany Library. Non-UNC-Chapel Hill researchers may request photocopies or microfiche duplications through the Interlibrary Loans Division at their home library. Requests should be sent to:

Intelibrary Loans–Lending
CB# 3335 Davis Library
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3335

Microfiche and Corresponding Print Indexes

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia vascular plant types and authentic specimens collection. Contents: Muhlenberg Herbarium – Barton Herbarium and special collections – Lambert Herbarium fragment – Lewis and Clark Herbarium . "The Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences is the definitive collection of North American botany for the era 1780-1840."
Microfiche 15-53
Print index: Reference Folio QK77 .A27 M43 1984

Bertoloni, Antonio. Herbarium. Fifty-two fiche with specimens from Bertoloni’s Florula Guatimalensis (1840) and Miscellanea Botanica XX-XXI (1859).
Microfiche 15-101
Print index: Reference QK77 .B48 B86 1988

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum. Berlin. Herbarium Willdenow.
Microfiche 15-4
Print index: Reference QK77 .W54 B67 1972

California Academy of Sciences vascular plant type collection. Contains 263 microfiche and a microfiche index.
Microfiche 15-84
Print index: Reference QK77 .C35 K45 1985

Geneva. Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Candolle Prodromi Herbarium.
Microfiche 15-97

Historical herbaria in Paris. Contains collections from Desfontaines, Herbier de Ceylon, Humboldt-Bonpland et Kunth, Michaux, Jussieu, Lamarck, Rousseau-Aublet, and Tournefort herbaria.
Microfiche 15-1
Print index: Reference QK77 .H8 H37 1981

Linnean Society of London. Linnean herbarium.
Microfiche 15-96
Print index: Reference Folio QK77 .L5 1991

Loureiro, João de. Herbarium Loureiro. Reproducitons of specimens form the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, which constitute a part of the existing herbarium connected with Loureiro's Flora Cochinchinensis. Includes manuscript catalog by A. L. Jussieu. Cf. Merrill, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., n.s., 24(2), 1935.
Microfiche 15-20

Michaux, André. Herbarium Michaux.
Microfiche 15-13
Print index: Reference QK77 .M53 H37 1981

New York Botanical Garden vascular plant type collection. Contains approximately 73,000 type specimens in 313 families.
Microfiche 15-36
Print index: Reference QK77 .N48 I53 1985

Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. Herbarium Rafinesquianum: Prodromus, rarissim. plant. nov.: Herbals, or Botanical collections of C. S. Rafinesque.
Microfiche 15-6

Smith, James Edward. Smith Herbarium. Includes the Smith Herbarium (940 microfiches) and The Catalogue of the Smithian Herbarium : the Herbarium of Sir James Edward Smith, M.D., F.R.S., first President of theLinnean Society of London, in the possession of theLinnean Society of London, compiled by Spencer Savage (71 microfiches). Catalog reproduced from the original handwritten text.
Microfiche 15-100

Thunberg, Karl Peter. Herbarium.
Microfiche 15-3

Vahl, Martin. Herbarium Vahlii / Botanical Museum of the University [of Copenhagen].
Microfiche 15-102
Print index: Reference Folio QK77 .V34 B73 1995