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On a tour of the Duke University Herbarium, biology professor Kathleen Pryer, herbarium director, stops with curator Michael Windham at the cabinet where they keep the type specimens. An herbarium is a sort of plant library, and a type specimen is something like a first edition, or perhaps even an original manuscript. It’s the specimen based on which the species got its scientific name and classification, and the original type specimen generally stays in the herbarium of the person who discovered it. ....