Virtual Herbarium Express 

URL: 

   http://www.nybg.org/bsci/vh/ 

Source of information: 

website only  

Last updated:   

July 2003 

Contact 

Name:   

Tony Kirchgessner 

information 

Address:  

The New York Botanical Garden 

  Bronx 

River 

Parkway 

at Fordham Road  

Bronx, New York 10458 

  USA 

Email:  

vhnybg@nybg.org 

Availability and 

Freely available for download from 

cost 

http://www.nybg.org/bsci/vh/#Library

. Free of cost. 

Specialization by 

Herbarium collections 

taxonomic group 

Computing 

Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000 

platform 

Limitations to 

No limitations documented, database system is 

Microsoft Access 

scalability 

XP

Data import 

Microsoft Access XP import capabilities. Authority files on 

capabilities and/or 

persons, publications, families, and genera provided by the 

limitations 

programme, other data on request.   

Data export 

Microsoft Access XP export capabilities.  

capabilities and/or 

Special output for import to NYBG database, were the data can be 

limitations 

hosted as a separate catalogue 

Size and 

No information 

distribution of user 

base 

Source of user 

http://www.nybg.org/bsci/vh/VHE_UserManual.pdf

documentation 

Database model 

No information 

documentation 

Miscellaneous English 

and 

Spanish version available 

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