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The grass herbarium of General William Munro (1818–1880)

…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  …

Henry Noltie’s Botanical Novelties and other adventures

…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,…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. IV. DNA

…3 Plant DNeasy extractions from herbarium material 1 Plant DNeasy + QiaQuick extraction from herbarium material   2004: Kyle Dexter no. 401, PERU (E) 3 Plant DNeasy extractions from herbarium

These are a few of our favourite things

herbarium specimen are as equally as important as the plant material itself.     Terry Gilmour Herbarium Cleaning Operative My favourite thing in the Herbarium is the job of cleaning…

Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile – linking our collections

…from the herbarium is primarily for material that was collected in the wild, although we often have a herbarium specimen from the plant growing in cultivation at one of our…

Plant Collecting and the Lived Experience of Botany: Bill Burtt’s Malaysian Collecting

…without them the herbarium specimens would not exist. By unpacking some of these physical and emotional ties to herbarium specimens, this project illustrates the human nature of science, and its…

Embedding Repository Items in Botanics Stories

…Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced See full details in the Living Collections Catalogue >> This is an example of a factsheet for a herbarium specimen. Unsupported repository item type: Herbarium Specimen Scan  …

The Collectors of the Wallich (or East India Company) Herbarium

…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…

Disentangling the history of the Robert Brown specimens at RBGE

…From Description 1 February 1878 Kew Herbarium Final instalment of the Robert Brown Herbarium (Iter Aust. 1802-5). About 520 species 4 March 1881 Kew Herbarium Remainder of Hb. of Brown…

Zoomable and searchable map of the Herbarium Collections of Martin Gardner in the RBGE (E) herbarium.

The groups and expedition are listed below. COLL_ID NAME PARTICIPANT_FULL DATES NUM SPECIMEN NUM LIVING ACCESSIONS AAJ Ait Lafkih, M.; Ajmi, S.; Gardner, M.F. & Jury, S.L. Gardner, Martin Fraser:Jury,…

William Roxburgh’s herbarium specimens at RBGE and rediscovery of Patrick Russell’s herbarium

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 Collectors of the Wallich (or East India Company) Herbarium. Part III

…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…

Coffee and skulldugery in Ceylon, 1796

…shows that the specimen was at one point in Wight’s own herbarium, but also that there is a duplicate in the herbarium of the East India Company. This vast herbarium,…

Rosularia muratdaghensis

…plant not one made in the field all those years earlier. Unsupported repository item type: Herbarium Specimen Scan   This plant along with Rhododendron horlickianum are examples of a living…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. V. Fragmenting the DNA

…cycles sonication; 2009 herbarium material, repaired, 8 cycles sonication; 2004 herbarium material, repaired, 3 cycles sonication; 2004 herbarium material, repaired, 3 cycles sonication; 1932 herbarium leaf material, repaired, 3 cycles…

The Collectors of the Wallich (or East India Company) Herbarium. Part II

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…

Siân Bowen’s Leverhulme Research Fellowship Exhibition: After Hortus Malabaricus: Sensing and Presencing Rare Plants

…of herbarium specimens The Bound Herbarium and Artist Books Also exhibited are some of a number of artist books that I have been working on. Early historical herbaria took the…

Trinity College Dublin and the Wallichian distribution of the East India Company’s Herbarium

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…

The Collectors of the Wallich (or East India Company) Herbarium. Part IV

…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…