During 1999, a total of 5815 specimens were added to the Herbarium through collecting, exchanges, and gifts. These included 700 specimens collected on the Herbarium Foray (531 vascular plants, 169 lichens), and 1475 specimens collected in the Kuril Islands (584 vascular plants, 891 nonvascular plants). Katie Glew deposited over 1000 lichen specimens collected as part of the Yellowstone National Park Lichen Floristics Study and Peter Zika gave 1076 specimens from his ongoing floristic research. The Herbarium received 370 specimens from The Nature Conservancy, collected during survey work in Washington and Oregon preserves.
Loan transactions required handling 12,269 specimens. We sent 27 loans to other institutions. The average size for the seven vascular plant loans was 35 specimens, and that for the 20 nonvascular plant loans was 81. We received 108 loans for study by University of Washington researchers and students, the highest number in at least 10 years. We sent three loans to researchers working on the Flora of North America (FNA) project, and received four loans to support Mark Egger’s treatment of Castilleja for FNA.
The Herbarium continued to facilitate the work of two botanical illustrators. John Myers, visiting from the Missouri Botanical Garden, illustrated plants for FNA and other publications. Linda Vorobik, long associated with the Jepson Herbarium, received seven loans in support of her work on the new Manual of North American Grasses and other floristic projects.