Description
The Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum is a small natural history museum located on the second floor of the Michael and Kay Birck Hall of Science at Benedictine University. The museum represents the work of Fr. Hilary Jurica, O.S.B. and his brother, Fr. Edmund Jurica, O.S.B. who collected specimens for their students to use during their almost 100 combined years of teaching at Benedictine University. In the early 1970's, the Museum was placed in the hands of Fr. Theodore Suchy, O.S.B. who turned their collection of specimens into a thriving nature museum. Fr. Ted continued collecting and the collection grew to over 10,000 specimens, ranging from a tiny aphid to a whale skeleton. The Herbarium collection was started by Fathers Hilary and Edmund Jurica, O.S.B. The purpose of the collection is to help visualize and identify plants over time.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,068 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
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Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum, Benedictine University, Herbarium Specimens
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d39570b9-2972-4dbb-b41f-6826823176ae. Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- Birck Hall, Room 215, 5700 College Road
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Director/Curator
- Birck Hall, Room 229, 5700 College Road
- 630-829-6531
Geographic Coverage
The Herbarium specimens held at the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum have been collected from around the world, primarily Europe and the Americas. The largest portion of Herbarium specimens were collected in the Midwestern region of the United States.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Any plant taxa. The Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum does not have a specific focus, we house many different plant classes in our collection.
| Kingdom | Plantae |
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| Class | Magnoliopsida, Pinopsida, Gnetopsida, Equisetopsida, Lycopodiopsida, Charophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, Rhodophyceae, Liliopsida |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1860-1979 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum at Benedictine University Herbarium specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/JSNM:Herb |
| Parent Collection Identifier | JSNM |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | d39570b9-2972-4dbb-b41f-6826823176ae |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=jsnm_herb |