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Herbarium collections have many uses, and provide invaluable and irreplaceable data for life sciences (conservation, biodiversity, taxonomy, ecology, invasive biology, evolution, entomology, plant pathology, forensics, weed science, plant physiology, ecological restoration, etc.), physical sciences (physics, chemistry, geology, paleontology), medicine (medicinal and toxic plants, voucher specimens for natural products, veterinary science), social sciences (archeology, anthropology, history, geography), education (student specimens, outreach, plant identification), and the arts and humanities (history, botanical illustration, dye and pigment plants, art history).