Updated 2/2002

Use Policy for the Herbarium in the Botany Department
of the California Academy of Sciences

1. All specimen collections of the Academy shall be accessible for legitimate research and study by all responsible investigators, subject to procedures necessary to safeguard the specimens and to restrictions required by limitations of normal working hours, of exhibition requirements, or available study space and facilities, and of the Academy staff time necessary to protect the collections and to guide investigators as to specimen locations and documentation.

2. The use of departmental collections or facilities by outside commercial organizations, such as environmental consulting companies, will be at the discretion of the department chairman, and normally will involve a fee as reimbursement for curator or technical time involved in assisting such organizations.

3. Individuals requesting access to specimens or records must state in writing the purpose of their inquiries. Ordinarily, access shall be limited to legitimate scholarly and legal inquiry.

4. In order to protect our collections from insect infestations we do not allow dried plant material into the Department until the material has been frozen, on site, for a minimum of 72 hours.

For Correspondence: Collections Manager, Botany Dept., California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118

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