Reference Publications on the Lewis and Clark Herbarium
The following references are important in documenting the history and scientific value of the L & C Herbarium. Some are available from the Academy of Natural Sciences are indicated with an asterisk (*). For ordering information, contact
Scientific Publications at the Academy.
Moulton, Gary E. (ed.). (1999) The journals of the Lewis & Clark expedition. The Herbarium of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Vol. 12. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
This is the 12th volume of the landmark re-editing of the Journals by the foremost Lewis and Clark scholar of the 20th century. The volume contains full-page black and white images of all the specimens in the Academy collection, as well as specimens at Kew Botanical Gardens. Also included are a brief history of the L & C Herbarium, a calendar of collection sites and dates, and various illustrations by Pursh and others.
*Spamer, Earle E., Richard M. McCourt, Robert Middleton, Edward Gilmore & Sean B. Duran. 2000. A national treasure: Accounting for the natural history specimens from the Lewis and Clark Expedition (western North America, 1803-1806) in The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 150: 47-58.
This publication provides information and photographs of the materials collected by Lewis and Clark that are now housed at the Academy of Natural Sciences. This material comprises minerals, a fossil fish jaw, plant specimens, and a putative Lewis and Clark specimen of a snake.
*Source: Spamer, Earle E., and Richard M. McCourt. 2002. The Lewis and Clark Herbarium, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (PH-LC): Digital imagery study set. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Special Publication No. 19.
This CD-ROM provides a compete set of black and white digital images of every specimen in the L & C Herbarium, including some close-up photographs of details. The images complement the full-sheet images in Moulton's (1999) volume on the Herbarium. The CD-ROM also contains the full text of the paper by Reveal et al. (1999), with some added notations and corrections, plus hyperlinks to the specimen images (the Reveal et al. paper contained no illustrations). The CD-ROM provides various indices (collection dates, states, type specimens) that are hyperlinked to the specimens, as well as a detailed description of the provenance and treatment of the specimens over the last 200 years. For more information and examples of the CD-ROM contents, click on the