The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium is the electronic gateway to the collections of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium. The goals of the Virtual Herbarium are to make specimen data available electronically for use in biodiversity research projects; to reduce shipping of actual specimens for projects where digital representations will suffice for study; and to reunite data elements (e.g., photographs and drawings, manuscripts, published works, microscopic preparations, gene sequences) derived from a specimen with the catalog record for that specimen. The digital collections of the Virtual Herbarium, comprising approximately 850,000 herbarium specimens and 120,000 high-resolution specimen images, are updated daily as the Garden pursues the goal of digitizing all of its 7,000,000 plant and fungi specimens. Reach the Virtual Herbarium here.