[PCA] Norton Brown Herbarium may close

[Ulloa Bustos, Maria]

Hi Sylvan,

Do you have their names to write letters of support to the Chair of the
Plant Sciences department and Dean of the College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources that house the herbarium?

Thanks, Maria


On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Sylvan Kaufman <sylvan.kaufman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I learned this week from the Director of the Norton Brown Herbarium at
> University of Maryland that it will close unless the Director can find
> $100,000 in operating expenses each year starting in 2017.  This herbarium
> is the state herbarium for Maryland .
>
> Does anyone have advice about how to either find outside funding or
> convince the University that they should fund the operating budget?  I have
> put the message out to several Maryland conservation-related listserves in
> the hopes that people will write letters of support to the Chair of the
> Plant Sciences department and Dean of the College of Agriculture and
> Natural Resources that house the herbarium.
>
> Thanks,
> Sylvan
>
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Maria T. Ulloa
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