SAN

• Name: Herbarium, Sabah Forestry Department, Forest Research Centre, P.O. Box 1407 Sepilok, Sandakan, Sabah 90715, Malaysia
• Herbarium Code: SAN

• Current Status: Active

• Number of Specimens: 273599

• Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants

• Geography: mainly Borneo

• Date Founded: 1916

Notes

SAN was destroyed twice in the end of World War II by Allied air attacks and/or Japanese vandalism (mainly responsible if it is true), and on 31 January 1961 by fire (vide Sugau et al. 2016: 4 & 6). Losses are summarized as follows:

• More than 10,800 herbarium sheets including collections made by D.M. Matthews, F.W. Foxworthy, D.D. Wood and H. Keith before 1945 (fide Ibbotson 2014)
• Some 15,000 post-war herbarium specimens and several hundred wood specimens collected by 31 January 1961, except for unmounted 1959–1960 collections (fide Meijer 1968).

References

• Meijer, W. 1968. Forest Botany in Sabah. Revised edition. Unpublished typescript, Forest Department, Sabah. 31 pp.
• Ibbotson, R. 2014. The History of Logging in North Borneo. Kota Kinabalu: Opus Publications. pp. i–xix, 1–650. ISBN 978-983-3987-50-4
• Sugau, J.B., Pereira, J.T., Lee, Y.F. & Wong, K.M. 2016. The Sandakania Herbarium turns a hundred. Sandakania 21: 1–20. PDF. Reference page. 

External links

• FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE SEPILOK – Centre Of Excellence In Forestry Research - Accessed: 31 October 2023.
• Index Herbariorum, NYBG Steere Herbarium. Accessed: 3 November 2023⁽⁾.