…Gunn, some of which ended up in Munro’s herbarium. The Munro herbarium is this now scattered between CAL, E, GH and W. Unsupported repository item type: Herbarium Specimen Scan …
…since 1913, is known not by its official title of the ‘Herbarium of the Honorable East India Company’, but as the ‘Wallich Herbarium’ (‘the Herbarium’ hereafter; its acronym ‘K-W’), in…
…who, at this stage in their lives, can be called horticulturists. After the Collectors and medics, these contributed the largest number of specimens (255) to the Herbarium, of which by…
By Henry Noltie & Mark Watson (continued from Part I) The Surgeons (and a Vet) Perhaps unsurprisingly the second largest number of specimens in the Herbarium came from members of…
For many years I have been aware that in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E) is more than one set of specimens collected in South India by…
The official establishment of the Herbarium at Trinity College Dublin is taken as 1840, with the appointment of Thomas Coulter (1793–1843) as the first Keeper and the incorporation of his…
…many aspects of Indian culture and natural history. Nine such officers, collectively, are responsible for a total of 110 specimens in the Herbarium. As with the other groups of contributors…
On Friday 15 March 2019, the RBGE Herbarium and Edinburgh Shoreline Project joined forces for a half-day mixed media workshop inspired by algae specimens in the RBGE Herbarium. The morning…
A herbarium is a collection of preserved plants (known as specimens) stored, catalogued and arranged systematically. The specimens that are stored in the herbarium are a working reference collection used…
…a herbarium sheet at Edinburgh herbarium. The specimen is also available online at Edinburgh herbarium E00930974 Things needed to mount herbarium specimens: cardboard sheets, acid free glue, needle and thread,…
…what can we do do with herbarium data. One such method is Species Distribution Modelling. Here, we take all of the herbarium records for a single species and examine the…
…the herbarium of the Rev John Lightfoot (1735–1788), author of Flora Scotica, and chaplain-naturalist to the Duchess of Portland. In 1788, following the cleric-naturalist’s death his herbarium had been purchased…
…Why Herbarium Collections? Herbarium Collections – a collections of plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study and for species definitions – tell stories of a particular time and…
The Backhouse family is more widely known for their nursery based in the north of England. However, several members of the family also collected herbarium specimens which are now held…
…in herbaria (collections of preserved plant specimens for scientific study). Some of the methods for collecting herbarium specimens are similar to those developed centuries ago, but there are also new…
…think of the Herbarium as a source of inspiration for poetry. I find Anna’s poetry truly wondrous and captivating, all the more so having witnessed her enthusiasm when I introduced…
…Mi-Seq sequencing. Fig. 2. Tapestation trace for Inga umbellifera DNA from Mathews’ 1835 herbarium sheet We analysed the sequence data from the Tru-Seq and NEB-Next libraries separately, as our study…
…Niven ’s work at www.bobbyniven.com Artists wishing to visit the Herbarium collection or the Library & Archives at RBGE, please email herbarium@rbge.org.uk and library@rbge.org.uk respectively. Written by Lesley Scott. …
…3232 specimens to the herbarium and 1029 accessions to the living collections at the Botanics from the following expeditions: Kew–Edinburgh–Kathmandu Expedition to NE Nepal (KEKE), August–October, 1989 (collecting monocots) Henry,…
…the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE collected? Where the types in the herbarium at RBGE were collected Who collected the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE …