Modern Pollen And Spore Reference Collection
Our lab has one of the largest reference collections in the country west of Harvard, and west of the St. Louis Botanical Garden, Missouri. Our duplicate slides from the U.S.Geological Survey number about 3000, and about 1000 prepared by students focusing on the Pacific Northwest flora. These are vouchered specimens on slides usually with glycerine jelly sealed with plastic rings, but many are in silicone oil. We also have around 2000 modern reference slides prepared by Jane Gray kindly donated to us by the University of Oregon. The collections emphasize the flora of the Northern Hemisphere, but include a broad sampling of the flora of Micronesia.
Modern Pollen and Spore Photo Files
We have photographed specimens for most of the duplicate slides from the U.S.Geological Survey, and have these available at around 1000x magnifications on 3 x 5 cards arranged by family. We estimate the photographs number in the thousands.
Northwest Seed Collection
We have a collection of fruits and seeds from Pacific Northwest trees, shrubs, and herbs. These are organized in small trays with locality information for each specimen.
Paleobotany Library
We have one of the best coillections of US Geological Survey paleofloras, and these range in age mainly from Cretaceous to Quaternary, but emphasize floras of Tertiary age from North America. We also have a number of European Tertiary floras including the British series by Reid and Chandler on the London Clay flora.
Reprint collection
Estella has collected reprints from world paleobotanists, ecologists, palynologists and stratigraphers from the 1970's forward, and these are arranged by author in file folders in an accessible book case.
Access to the Quaternary Research Center Library (QRC)
The QRC library is a world class collection of books journals and reprints on stratigraphy, paleoecology and paleontology for the Quaternary - a world-wide coverage. It is a combination of t he reprints from Richard Foster Flnt (Yale) and A. Lincoln Washburn (UW) , the latter having been founder of the Quaternary Research Center.
