{"id":3634,"date":"2023-10-25T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2023-10-27T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:45:31","slug":"renowned-namesake-of-pringle-herbarium-led-a-storied-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/renowned-namesake-of-pringle-herbarium-led-a-storied-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Namesake of Pringle Herbarium Led a Storied Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The University of Vermont’s Pringle Herbarium is an on-campus natural history museum that is the second largest herbarium in New England. Established in 1902, it houses over 360,000 plant and fungi specimens, with a geographic focus on Vermont and tropical regions of Mexico, Central America, and South America. The herbarium serves as a regional and international hub for research on the classification, evolution, and distribution of plant species.<\/p>\n

During 2023, Plant Biology Professor David Barrington<\/a>, long-time curator and director of the Pringle Herbarium, retired after a remarkable 49 years of research and service. His successor is Plant Biology Assistant Professor Weston Testo<\/a>, a former PhD student of Barrington.<\/p>\n

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Cyrus Pringle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The herbarium’s namesake, Cyrus Pringle, was born in East Charlotte, Vermont in 1838. Pringle eventually became a world-renowned botanist, but his rise to this status and the legacy that followed have been considered surprising by historians, for the twists and turns of his life and career.<\/p>\n

Pringle was a self-taught plant breeder and botanist. As a teenager, he hybridized apple trees on the family farm. He attended the University of Vermont for a brief period, but had to leave to support his widowed mother, and to tend their farm.<\/p>\n

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Comparison of two herbarium plant specimens. The one of the left was collected in 1909, the specimen on the right was collected in 1985.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An October 2023 article in VTDigger entitled, Then Again: Vermonter became one of the nation\u2019s most important botanists<\/a>, goes into detail about the interesting life and times of Cyrus Pringle, whose botanical collections are considered the backbone of the Pringle Herbarium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Vermont’s Pringle Herbarium is an on-campus natural history museum that is the second largest herbarium in New England. Established in 1902, it houses over 360,000 plant and fungi specimens, with a geographic focus on Vermont and tropical regions of Mexico, Central America, and South America. The herbarium serves as a regional and … <\/p>\n

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