Page 3 - The Herbarium of John W. Van Cleve v2

In 1966 botanist Larry Morse was reorganizing the

botanical collections at the museum and rediscovered Van

Cleve’s herbarium. Morse wrote a description of the

herbarium and made a presentation about it to the Ohio

Academy of Science in 1967. He also made list of the

species in the herbarium along with the taxonomy of the

specimens as they were named at that time.

The John W. Van Cleve Herbarium now resides at

Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton. It is slowly

deteriorating but in remarkably good shape for a collection

so old. This booklet is an attempt to preserve a record of

these beautiful specimens, collected by a founder of

Dayton when much of the land was still a wilderness.

Dave Nolin

December, 2016

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