Sponsored by:
Senator BOB SMITH
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Diegnan
SYNOPSIS
Celebrates 100th anniversary of Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Senate Resolution celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University.
Whereas, A herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens, which can serve as a kind of botanical “library,” facilitating research, education, and conservation efforts; and
Whereas, The Chrysler Herbarium, located at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, the State University, was established in 1925 and is named after one of its founders, Dr. Mintin A. Chrysler, a botany professor at Rutgers; and
Whereas, The Chrysler Herbarium is the largest internationally recognized herbarium in the State; and
Whereas, The herbarium contains nearly 200,000 botanical specimens of plants, algae, and fungi, covering a vast range of botanical biodiversity; and
Whereas, The herbarium focuses on the flora of New Jersey and the surrounding states within the Mid-Atlantic region, including specimens collected from the 1800s to the current day; and
Whereas, The herbarium’s collection has been used in various research projects, including sampling for DNA or chemical defenses, rediscovering rare and endangered species, and determining the dates of species’ introduction to the New World through the analysis of ship ballast; and
Whereas, Rutgers undergraduate researchers have also looked at the herbarium’s collection to study species range shifts, herbivory trends, and to assist in rediscovering species over 100 years since their last known collection in the State; and
Whereas, Today, the herbarium is nearly 100 percent digitized, and specimens can be viewed by the public online through large data aggregators such as Integrated Digitized Biocollections, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium; and
Whereas, The herbarium serves as an example of the excellence of the State’s academic and other research institutions; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Senate celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University and the significant work the herbarium has done to facilitate biological and other research.
2. Copies of this resolution,
as filed with the Secretary of the State, shall be transmitted by the Senate
Secretary to the President of Rutgers, The State University, and the Director
of the Chrysler Herbarium.
STATEMENT
This resolution would celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chrysler Herbarium, located at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
The Chrysler Herbarium was established in 1925 and is named after one of its founders, Dr. Mintin A. Chrysler, a botany professor at Rutgers. The herbarium is the largest internationally recognized herbarium in the State, and contains nearly 200,000 botanical specimens of plants, algae, and fungi, covering a vast range of botanical biodiversity.