BRIEF PICTORIAL HISTORY - 170 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

1950

Warren H. Wagner, Jr., appointed Assistant Professor of Botany.




1956


Edward Voss, under a faculty research grant from the University’s graduate school, begins the Michigan Flora project.












1959


Mycologist Alexander H. Smith appointed Director of the Herbarium.













1960


Herbarium moves to the North University Building











1965

Howard Crum appointed associate professor of botany and curator of bryophytes




1972


Rogers McVaugh appointed Director.  Ed Voss publishes volume I of the Michigan Flora series.











1975


William C. Steere (U-M Ph.D. Botany 1932, former Director UM Botany) with Emperor Hirohito of Japan at the New York Botanical Garden.













1986

William R. Anderson appointed Director.




2002


Herbarium moves to the Varsity Drive Complex.










2005

Paul E. Berry appointed Professor and Director.