SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE RESOLUTION No. 139

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  DECEMBER 11, 2025

      The Senate Environment and Energy Committee reports favorably Senate Resolution No. 139.

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.