John T. Waterhouse Herbarium

The John T. Waterhouse Herbarium and its associated library is used as a source of information and material for teaching and research purposes. The collection is available for use by staff and students of UNSW, and external visitors, during working hours by arrangement. Specimens are available for loan to other institutions for study. Individual specimens may be cited by researchers in their publications as vouchers from which original data have been obtained. Data categories include morphological, molecular, chemical, histological, ecological, palynological, biogeographical and historical.

The herbarium was named after John T. Waterhouse, a senior lecturer in Botany in the School who was instrumental in obtaining the international registration of the herbarium in Index Herbariorum in 1981. He had a longstanding interest in rainforests and the family Myrtaceae. In October 2017, the collection moved to a new, modern, purpose-built facility within the new Biosciences South Building, with a separated, climate-controlled collection vault.

约翰·T·沃特豪斯标本馆（John T. Waterhouse Herbarium）及其附属图书馆，主要作为教学与科研的信息与材料来源。本馆藏面向新南威尔士大学（UNSW）教职员工、学生及外部访客开放，需在工作时间提前预约方可使用。标本可向其他科研机构出借以供研究。研究人员在发表论著时，可将馆藏个体标本作为获取原始数据的凭证标本予以引用。馆藏数据类别涵盖形态学、分子生物学、化学、组织学、生态学、孢粉学、生物地理学及历史学等领域。

该标本馆以约翰·T·沃特豪斯命名，他曾担任该校植物学高级讲师，并于1981年促成该标本馆在《国际植物标本馆索引》（Index Herbariorum）中完成国际注册。他长期关注热带雨林与桃金娘科（Myrtaceae）植物研究。2017年10月，该馆藏迁入新建成的现代化专业场馆，位于新生物科学南楼内，配有独立的恒温恒湿标本储藏室。