Keywords: Specimens
Item 135841
Furbish’s Lousewort, Fort Kent, 1881
Contributed by: Harvard University Herbarium Date: 1881 Location: Fort Kent Media: Botanical specimen
Item 135842
Furbish's Lousewort, Van Buren, 1880
Contributed by: New England Botanical Society Date: 1880 Location: Van Buren Media: Botanical specimen
Exhibit
Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Site Page
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2
"Buck, when surviving specimens of dress are studied in the same way as other material evidence of civilization, clothing takes its place as part of…"
Story
Lifelong Lepidopterist
by E. Christopher Livesay
Chris Livesay collects and studies butterflies.
Story
Importance of Insects in Maine
by Charlene Donahue
Doing Insect surveys with the Maine Entomological Society
