Maine Memory Network

Furbish’s Lousewort, Fort Kent, 1881

Contributed by: Harvard University Herbarium Date: 1881 Location: Fort Kent Media: Botanical specimen

CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… with many species of whales being in danger of extinction. This caused the beginning of the global anti-whaling movement in the 1970’s."

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers
by Doug Hitchcox, Staff Naturalist at Maine Audubon

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the Portland Society of Natural History Collections

From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm

The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History