The following blog was written by Iain Ratter, a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…
…herbarium. This (luckily well-curated) family takes up 45 of our herbarium cabinets. It was the first family worked on when I started at the herbarium, and I was very happy…
…decade apart – Sims in 1772, Smith in 1782). Rottler later sent a herbarium specimen, which is still in Smith’s herbarium at the Linnean Society of London, with the collection…
…specimen is placed in our drying room and weighted down; after a few days it is pressed and dried and can be moved to the herbarium. Herbarium specimens weighted down…
The herbarium at RBGE holds around 3 million herbarium specimens. Each specimen consists of pressed plant material and a collection label mounted on archival card. They are used to identify…
…KOHA ID in Specify 7, thereby ensuring the integration between the Library’s cataloguing system and the Herbarium’s data management system. Moreover, I incorporate the unique identifier URL from the Herbarium…
…in the herbarium, with the biggest change to the sheet being the barcode I added to it for the digitisation project. The photographs we take for herbarium digitisation project use…
The following blog was written by Chris Knowles, a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…
…Erica mannii (Hook.f.) Beentje A selection of Dr Hewan’s plant specimens held by RBGE’s herbarium Dr David Harris, herbarium curator and deputy director of science, says: “Dr Hewan was one…
Throughout his catalogue of the East India Company Herbarium, Nathaniel Wallich makes reference to herbarium collections by using the abbreviations ‘Herb.’, ‘Hb.’ or simply ‘H.’ The clues to understanding what…
…was to provide: 95,000 high quality images of herbarium specimens 5,000 digital photographs and scans of living plants 200 natural history artwork scans To date we have provided 185,559 records…
…this URL: http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/mobile/herbarium/ Or with the QR Code displayed. If you don’t have access to the herbarium you could pick some bar codes from our herbarium catalogue – which actually…
The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…
…British Isles (BSBI). Total number of specimens held in the British Collection within the Herbarium*: 53 specimens *Please note, that the Herbarium contains more specimens of Ilex aquifolium from other…
The following blog was written by Chris Knowles a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…
…post was written by Jane Cummins a herbarium volunteer working on the South Asia Curation Project. Our herbarium collections are organised into 19 floristic geographical regions. Traditionally at RBGE region…
…Darjeeling; twenty-seven of these specimen collections date between 1909-1924 and are preserved in the RBGE Herbarium. George Herbert Cave received recognition from prominent figures of the period, both for military…
…discoveries, and it fell to Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Geneva in 1817 to describe the species (using Buchanan[-Hamilton]’s name), based on specimens in the herbarium of A.B. Lambert, which…
…from the Glasgow University Herbarium when the cryptogamic collections were transferred to RBGE in 2005, and that they were in the herbarium of George Arnott Walker Arnott (1799−1868), one of…