The Marie-Victorin Herbarium, which our class had the opportunity to visit as part of the Environmental and Wildlife Management curriculum, forms an extensive collection (over 600,000 specimens!) of various vascular plants and bryophytes. Though historically used by medical students throughout their education, the herbarium now serves primarily as an archive to provide sources of botanical information as a means of identification, comparison, and taxonomic classification. The housed plants, fully intact, have each undergone a drying, pressing, and freezing process, and are individually…