University of Vermont Pringle Herbarium
University of Vermont
Torrey Hall, 27 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, Vermont 05405
United States
Fax: [1] 802/ 656-0440
Web: http://www.uvm.edu/~plantbio/pringle/Overview%20of%20our%20Collection.html
David Barrington, Curator
Email: dbarring@uvm.edu
The University of Vermont Pringle Herbarium contains over 300,000 sheets of mounted and accessioned plants; it is the third largest herbarium in New England. Central to the herbarium are the extensive Mexican collections of its namesake, Cyrus G. Pringle (1838-1911).
Pringle's aggressive exchange program with a suite of approximately two dozen international and national herbaria between 1885 and 1911 brought a large geographically and taxonomically diverse representation of the world's flora to the herbarium. Pringle's unusually rich exchange materials, including many isotypes from his pioneering explorations in northern Latin America and southwestern United States, led exchange partners to send unusually choice materials, for example the set of Sellow collections sent from Berlin's herbarium, representing the beginning of Europe's exploration of Brazil.