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  • Bringing yesterday's plants to digital life

    Serina Taluja scans a plant specimen from the INHS herbarium

    As an undergraduate student at Illinois, Serina Taluja scanned thousands of specimens belonging to the Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium. Her work contributed to a National Science Foundation effort to preserve about 2 million historic plant specimens in digital form.

    Photo by L. Brian Stauffer