Charitable Donations
Making a tax-deductible donation to the herbarium is easy and can make a big impact on student research activities! Every donation helps us achieve our mission of maintaining an innovative research and education resource in the plant sciences. Investing in Emory has never been easier. You may use a credit card, check, money order, electronic funds transfer, or even appreciated stock or other real property.
Donate To The Herbarium ProjectIf you have any questions concerning the importance and use of Herbarium donor funds or about making a material donation to the Emory Herbarium, please contact the Herbarium Director.
Material Donation
The Emory Herbarium (GEO) grows through our new collection efforts and the acquisition of orphaned or donated herbaria, and donations of plant material by independent botanical collectors. Although GEO is interested in receiving material from all continents and taxonomic families, in particular, we have an interest in herbarium specimens and botanical objects linked to medicinal uses and practices.
Items that we are interested in obtaining and curating include
- Pressed herbarium specimens
- Private botanical collections
- Historic specimens of plant resins, seeds, and other parts
- Historic botanical prints and artwork
- Historic texts, such as botanical flora, materia medica, pharmacopoeia (medical texts with plant-based medicines), old herbals, original herbaria (bound books with plants affixed to the pages)
- Historic botanical objects, such as blow guns, spears, tribal masks, assorted cultural objects, plant-based tools, musical instruments, medical instruments, and bottled botanical medicaments (before the 1950’s)
In addition to curating any donated items in our physical collection, we also aim to image and digitize these objects for outreach, education, and research purposes. Unfortunately, we cannot take live plant dontations at this time.
Library Donation
We are also eager to accept donations to the Emory Herbarium Library. We are in need of botanical reference texts and will accept used texts in gently worn condition. We have also established an Amazon Wish List of needed texts. Donors can place an order on Amazon, and the texts will be delivered to the Herbarium Library.