…South Asian material in herbarium region 5 into 5 sub-regions has made the digitisation of Myanmar herbarium specimens much easier. You can read more about that project here. Important collections…
…herbarium with him to Kew, but Greville’s herbarium remained in Edinburgh, and Arnott’s in Glasgow. Fortunately, Hooker was extremely generous with his specimens and gave many duplicates to his friends…
…of herbarium specimens. Both datasets have their strengths. Her analysis of the ecological plot data highlights one set of Gilbertiodendron dewevrei associates and the herbarium specimen data works better for…
…16L 145, FRENCH GUIANA, Inselberg Grand Plateau (E) – we had both silica-dried tissue and the herbarium material for this collection. The green colour of the herbarium material in the…
…& Herbarium Britannicum Don’s plant collections were extensively used by James Edward Smith to describe plant species new to science. However, Don published three new species, in his Herbarium Britannicum:…
…The main victorian herbarium at Kew Basement of Kew’s herbarium Kew’s herbarium is a very different beast to the modern herbarium of the NHM. The main herbarium is a beautiful…
…Hyacinthoides non-scripta: 55 specimens Scottish bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia: 82 specimens Herbarium specimen of Hyacinthoides non-scripta collected in 1905 by S.E. Brock Herbarium specimen of Hyacinthoides non-scripta collected as part of…
…November 1784, were seeds and dried specimens collected in Nova Scotia, with an accompanying list of the specimens. Nobody knew that any of these had survived, as Hope’s herbarium has…
…our DNA bank for reuse, instead of repeatedly raiding any one herbarium specimen. Pleioblastus amarus specimen (two herbarium sheets) collected in Sichuan, 1996 One of our major research projects at…
…Collection of spathe Section of flowers collected Lesley Scott, an Assistant Curator in the Herbarium, was delighted to be involved with making the herbarium specimen: taking material from the living…
…RBGE Herbarium. https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00912828 Prunus spinosa: Fruiting specimen. RBGE Herbarium. https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E01152527 Total number of Specimens held in the British Collection within the Herbarium: 51 Specimens 1 The digitisation of this species…
…garden plants such as Digitalis (foxgloves), Antirrhinum (snapdragons), Hebe, Penstemon, Russelia and Veronica. Herbarium specimen of Antirrhinum L. This specimen was collected in 1787 and formed part of Giseke’s herbarium….
…of an orchid herbarium specimen minimal data record, Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz, on the RBGE online herbarium catalogue record. https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00711687 We then launch virtual expeditions on DigiVol, a crowdsourced digitisation…
…era of genetics and genomics. Ian Hedge in the New Herbarium. Photograph from the RBGE Archive. Ian came to RBGE in 1951. After just three months he was called up…
…Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854) started to amass a considerable herbarium of plant specimens on behalf of the EIC. This herbarium comprised of Wallich’s own collections made during his journeys through India,…
This Blog post was written by Olivia Nippe, a PhD intern who spent three months working in the RBGE Herbarium: The RBGE herbarium contains over 3 million pressed plant specimens…
…lawyer); Hunter joined the Society only two months later and both were keen contributors to the Society’s herbarium (making their first donations in December 1836). The specimens referred to by…
…earliest lessons in botany from John – spent time adding localities to the herbarium specimens before they were transferred. John had not added collection localities when preparing his herbarium specimens,…
Today we have reached a new landmark with half a million herbarium specimens imaged and freely available online on our herbarium catalogue. You can visit and download all our specimen…