The Vasculum The Society of Herbarium Curators Newsletter Volume 13, Number 1: January 2018 Table of Contents Page Message from the President...................................... 2 From the Editor.......................................................... 3 News from the Society............................................... 5 Student Research Grants................................. 5 Call for Papers.................................................. 5 SHC Early Career Section................................ 6 Who are the SHC?............................................ 7 News from our Members............................................ 9 Fire at the Pringle Herbarium............................10 Featured Herbarium.................................................. 14 Society officers..........................................................22 The Society of Herbarium Curators (SHC) is an international organization for discussion, action, and support of herbaria. Created in 2005 in the southeastern United States, the SHC mission is to unite herbaria across the nation and around the world. For more information, please join us online: — www.herbariumcurators.org — Become a member by visiting: www.herbariumcurators.org/membership Annual Dues Student $5 Regular $10 Sustaining $25 Life $200 Section 1, of our Bylaws states that “Annual dues will again offer the short online course “Strategic Join us online shall be set by the membership on recommendation by Planning for Herbaria” to the Society’s members this Message from the President the Executive Board.” spring. This year’s course will be on Fridays from It is my pleasure to begin by welcom- Herbarium) has agreed to 3–4 (Eastern Time Zone) during the eight weeks from ing John Schenk (Georgia Southern chair the Section’s nominating Here, I will single out our webmaster, Michael April 6 to May 25. A somewhat lengthy description of University Herbarium) as the new committee to produce the Section’s Thomas, for special thanks. Michael’s hard work to the 2017 course’s activities can be found in the previ- Editor of The Vasculum, and Abby ballot for its four initial officers: transition the Society over to a more robust and scal- ous Message from the President column of The Vascu- Moore (University of Oklahoma’s Section President (one-year term), able membership payment and data management lum. If you have not already done so, I encourage you Robert Bebb Herbarium) and Melanie Section President-Elect (one-year infrastructure is making membership growth reason- to do strategic planning for your herbarium in the Link-Perez (Oregon State Universi- term), Section Secretary (two-year able for our all-volunteer organization. Expect to see context of the course or otherwise. Let’s make it clear ty’s Herbarium) as the new Associate term), and Section Professional changes to the protocol for membership renewal in to our administrators that our herbaria are Editors. I know that they have great Development Officer (two-year term). 2018 that should make the process more straightfor- context-aware and stakeholder-relevant. Watch for a SHC Website plans for this publication and look If you would like to be considered for ward. These changes incorporate PayPal and, for the Society e-mail with additional information on how to www.herbariumcurators.org forward to watching things roll out one of these positions, please contact first time, CiviCRM. apply for the course in the coming weeks. over the next issues. Erica Krimmel soon at: [email protected]. This I also thank the Society of Herbarium is an exciting and formative time to Curators’ Executive Board and Com- serve in those roles. mittee Members. It has been a plea- sure to work with this hardworking, A second potentially transformative creative cross-section of the Society’s change for the Society is the Execu- membership in the last year-and- tive Board’s approval to take the a-half. The group has taken a number following proposal to the membership of positive steps since the last Presi- for a vote in Spring 2018: Beginning Facebook dent’s Column, and I will highlight a with calendar year 2019, SHC will www.facebook.com/ few of them here. offer a new “Developing Country” herbariumcurators membership category that is compli- Perhaps the biggest news has been the mentary to applicants residing in approval of the governance countries that the SHC Executive documents for an Early Career Board identifies as eligible based on Section of the Society by the economic data (e.g., from the World If you are reading this at a time prior to the February 1 We will be electing a new Member-at-Large for the Executive Board on November 22, Bank). The SHC Executive Board deadline, please help the society advertise its Student Executive Board this spring. If you would like to 2017. According to the Section’s will annually adopt a list of qualifying Research Grants program. The website for the volunteer to be considered or would like to nominate Constitution, its purpose is “to support countries for the following year. The program has the following description of in-scope someone, please send an e-mail to Lucinda McDade the mission of the Society by proposal was made by the Society’s research: “Research on any taxa typically accessioned (Nominations Committee Acting Chair; Rancho Santa Twitter empowering students, postdoctoral Membership Committee, and I in herbaria including all plant, fungal, lichen, and Anna Botanic Garden) at [email protected], or me www.twitter.com/ researchers, and early career personally think that it is an excellent algal lineages is eligible. Supported activities could ([email protected]). The Society values the partici- socherbcurators professionals for success in herbarium way for the SHC to use its low over- include, but are not limited to, fieldwork to generate pation of members from all regions of the world, all settings.” Membership in the Section head as a strength, rather than our vouchers for revisionary or floristic work, collecting institutional contexts, and all career stages. is open to all who wish to further its small annual income simply serving morphological data from specimens, traveling to purpose, and you can become a as a constraint. At the end of 2017, the herbaria, or making and distributing physical speci- Thank you for your past and ongoing support of the member when renewing your Society’s 290 members represented 20 mens.” The Society awards two $500 grants to gradu- Society of Herbarium Curators. If you have any membership for 2018. Thank you, countries. This step would remove a ate students and one $250 grant to an undergraduate thoughts on how to make the society even more Katelin Pearson (Florida State barrier to engaging prospective mem- student. If you have questions, I encourage you to successful, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me. University’s Robert K. Godfrey bers with limited resources elsewhere contact Kathy Mathews (Grants Committee Chair; Herbarium), for providing leadership while circumventing some of the Western Carolina University Herbarium) at in the creation of the Section’s limitations introduced because PayPal [email protected]. LinkedIn governance documents. Erica only accepts 20 or so currencies. The www.linkedin.com/ Krimmel (Membership Committee proposal needs to be voted on by the I am also pleased to announce that David Jennings company/18255007 Chair; Chicago Academy of Sciences membership because Article 1, (iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History) and I The Vasculum, vol. 13, no. 1, 2018 — Newsletter of the Society of Herbarium Curators ——— page 2 Section 1, of our Bylaws states that “Annual dues will again offer the short online course “Strategic shall be set by the membership on recommendation by Planning for Herbaria” to the Society’s members this the Executive Board.” spring. This year’s course will be on Fridays from It is my pleasure to begin by welcom- Herbarium) has agreed to 3–4 (Eastern Time Zone) during the eight weeks from ing John Schenk (Georgia Southern chair the Section’s nominating Here, I will single out our webmaster, Michael April 6 to May 25. A somewhat lengthy description of University Herbarium) as the new committee to produce the Section’s Thomas, for special thanks. Michael’s hard work to the 2017 course’s activities can be found in the previ- Editor of The Vasculum, and Abby ballot for its four initial officers: transition the Society over to a more robust and scal- ous Message from the President column of The Vascu- Moore (University of Oklahoma’s Section President (one-year term), able membership payment and data management lum. If you have not already done so, I encourage you Robert Bebb Herbarium) and Melanie Section President-Elect (one-year infrastructure is making membership growth reason- to do strategic planning for your herbarium in the Link-Perez (Oregon State Universi- term), Section Secretary (two-year able for our all-volunteer organization. Expect to see context of the course or otherwise. Let’s make it clear ty’s Herbarium) as the new Associate term), and Section Professional changes to the protocol for membership renewal in to our administrators that our herbaria are Editors. I know that they have great Development Officer (two-year term). 2018 that should make the process more straightfor- context-aware and stakeholder-relevant. Watch for a plans for this publication and look If you would like to be considered for ward. These changes incorporate PayPal and, for the Society e-mail with additional information on how to forward to watching things roll out one of these positions, please contact first time, CiviCRM. apply for the course in the coming weeks. over the next issues. Erica Krimmel soon at: [email protected]. This I also thank the Society of Herbarium is an exciting and formative time to Curators’ Executive Board and Com- serve in those roles. mittee Members. It has been a plea- sure to work with this hardworking, A second potentially transformative creative cross-section of the Society’s change for the Society is the Execu- membership in the last year-and- tive Board’s approval to take the a-half.