[Taxacom] Fw: Herbarium Valuation

[Donna Ford-Werntz]

Curator colleagues, I would appreciate input for reply to administrative request: "ballpark assessment of what it would take to replace...not what it cost to purchase...but what it would cost now to replace those items."


Equipment I can readily price, but how do herbaria currently approach content valuation for insurance purposes (irreplaceable specimens, books, etc.)?


Donna Ford-Werntz, Herbarium Curator
Associate Clinical Professor
Biology Dept., Box 6057
Life Sci. Bldg., 53 Campus Dr.
West Virginia Univ.
Morgantown, WV 26506
304-293-0794; biology.wvu.edu