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…plants. Jennifer Wood: two photographs, one press cutting and two herbarium specimens, 1965 I have included some of my highlights from the RBGE library, archives and herbarium, including interesting objects…
…in 2003 by George from a single preserved herbarium collection made by Dr Joannes Mogea, the former curator of Herbarium Bogoriense. Rhododendron mogeanum Argent. CASK 63. Accession Number:20110220*A . Photo:…
…as an exhibition hall for its flower shows, to be staged in the heart of the Society’s garden. From 1864 until 1964, it housed the Herbarium, the Royal Botanic Garden…
…of Edinburgh, the origins of the three-million strong herbarium and botanical library, and the construction of glasshouses accommodating everything from tropical palms to montane rhododendrons, cacti, ferns, the giant waterlily…
…Balfour was very interested in the flora of China, and when in 1904 he got the chance, he recommended one of his herbarium clerks, George Forrest, to go on a…
…and included 86 colour plates, simple species descriptions, recommendations for laying out and arranging specimens in the herbarium, and a key for identification. Plate XLIII, British Sea-Weeds, V.2., 1872 Gatty,…
…deny safe anchorages to German vessels during WWII. She travelled and worked across South and North America, building up an extensive collection of herbarium specimens. She became the director of…
…preserved in perpetuity as a pressed specimen in the Garden’s herbarium collection of around 3 million specimens that is a critical resource for botanical research. Voucher specimen of small adder’s-tongue,…
…Stella Ross-Craig A very delightful day – first being taken to Branstone Lodge, Kew Road (now demolished), by Mr Cotton (“Bunny”), Keeper of the Herbarium, who, on the way, told…
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…
…names today are handwritten labels on herbarium specimens or the glitches in optical character recognition (OCR). But this Meconopsis episode looked like something different, a new source of trouble. We…
…for identification, housed within herbarium files among plant specimens. These have been removed from the herbarium in order to preserve the materials and prevent any degradation that could occur due…
One of the herbarium specimens of the ginger that became known as Roscoea humeana, collected by George Forrest in 1910. In memory of Private David Hume, who was killed in…
…second hand. This is another one of those amazing bit of botanical/horticultural curio that lies hidden in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Poor Alopecurus geniculatus deemed USELESS…
…peregrinus held in the Herbarium at the Garden. We don’t know quite when the rare duplication event took place, but the distinctive genetic signatures of both the parents make it…
…which it has, despite the primula since joining its closest ally, Primula bellidifolia and taking its name. Primula bellidifolia from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 8801, v.145, 1919. R.E. Cooper’s herbarium specimen…
RBGE has recently started to explore the use of Citizen Science platforms by providing images and data to Herbaria@Home, a long standing and successful platform for transcribing herbarium specimen labels….
…Paradoxically it is the Hortus Siccus that long outlives the Hortus Humidus, so the only tangible memorial of Bruce’s plants is a herbarium specimen of tef, collected in the Leith…
In order to look at the effects of herbarium preservation methods on DNA quality, Hannah Wilson and Mark Hughes took a trip down to our research glasshouses, and brought back…