{"id":8816,"date":"2017-03-31T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2017-03-31T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:56:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/31\/word-of-the-day-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Herbaria<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>More than 100 North American herbaria \u2014 research collections of dried and labeled plants \u2014 have been lost since 1997, according to a 2015 report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/plant-collections-left-in-the-cold-by-cuts-1.17875\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/plant-collections-left-in-the-cold-by-cuts-1.17875&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1490997460295000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG-T7KILbRoj0zmn4UhLK7tVGPapg\">Nature<\/a>.\u00a0The number of curators at several major museums has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/museums-the-endangered-dead-1.16942\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/museums-the-endangered-dead-1.16942&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1490997460295000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEkkXc0PjjcTNqf5A45QkML2tRbNg\">declined<\/a>\u00a0significantly in the same period. When the Field Museum in Chicago fell into debt several years ago, it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-met-field-museum-scientists-20130731-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-met-field-museum-scientists-20130731-story.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1490997460295000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEG7D2ZLxaRq9jF_6-vv97t4gdcqg\">slashed millions of dollars<\/a> from its research budget. In 2013, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/23\/nyregion\/brooklyn-botanic-garden-defends-decision-to-suspend-science-program.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/23\/nyregion\/brooklyn-botanic-garden-defends-decision-to-suspend-science-program.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1490997460295000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEU1AVxlvP-x7XeQR9VhfBQ8Okr8A\">Brooklyn Botanic Garden<\/a> laid off several\u00a0researchers, suspended its science program and donated its 330,000-specimen herbarium elsewhere. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2017\/03\/29\/a-university-is-eliminating-its-science-collection-to-expand-a-running-track\/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_schooltrack624pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.5c7c8b7b2f19\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2017\/03\/29\/a-university-is-eliminating-its-science-collection-to-expand-a-running-track\/?hpid%3Dhp_hp-more-top-stories_schooltrack624pm%253Ahomepage%252Fstory%26utm_term%3D.5c7c8b7b2f19&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1490997460295000&amp;usg=AFQjCNElm_O00ilEhH7OaDcbuty_B2OwaA\"><i><b>The Washington Post<\/b><\/i><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbaria: More than 100 North American herbaria \u2014 research collections of dried and labeled plants \u2014 have been lost since 1997, according to a 2015 report in Nature.\u00a0The number of curators at several major museums has declined\u00a0significantly in the same period. When the Field Museum in Chicago fell into debt \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/31\/word-of-the-day-118\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8817,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions\/8817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}