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…collection of animals for the British Museum, and plants for RBGE, most of which are still stored in our Herbarium (see Tait’s specimens here). Tait’s Henderson Island report makes fascinating…
Next to the Front Range and within sight of the Library and Herbarium two small squares of lawn have been transformed into flower-rich ‘living lawns’ as part of an experiment…
…Herbarium west-facing border. This group regularly exhibits a fine range of red shades through the foliage during autumn. Again, a climatically challenging month has disrupted this. Do not neglect the…
…location data from herbarium specimens to show that the elevation at which iconic Himalayan poppies (Meconopsis spp.) are found has shifted upwards by an average of over 300m since 1970….
…the RBGE Demonstration Garden, including Stirling Castle, Lady of Wemyss and Scotch Bridget. Today seemed the perfect day to launch our new display, ‘Celebrating Apple Season’, in the Herbarium, Library…
Inspired by the Think Plastic: Materials and Making exhibition, Fields of Plastic is a display of items from the RBGE Collection in the Herbarium, Library & Archive Cabinet in the…
…main reception just off Inverleith Row. The enclosed space close to our herbarium and library is between buildings and this shaded area was the perfect location for Sarcococca confusa and…
…in a more stable environment within the Herbarium, Library and Balfour building, the environmental systems that support these, need constant supervision and attention. The Estates Support team are facilitating access…
…Here at RBGE, we have a wealth of expertise in the botany of dry forests, particularly in South America. Many of the three million collections in the RBGE herbarium are…
…this help has been needed in ‘general housekeeping’ sorting and sifting through endless boxes of material formerly lodged in the Herbarium that are now surplus to requirements. In consequence I’ve…
…furlough to Britain, he took the entire collection of the drawings he had commissioned (about 1200), and the vast herbarium he had amassed, back to Britain where he left them…
…Asunción Cano from the Peruvian National herbarium. It was a pleasure to name this species after Josh Richards and with luck he may stumble across another new species somewhere in…
…will be seen, probably came from the second of Badenach’s voyages to China. Although Hope’s herbarium has not survived a manuscript catalogue of it has, and in it is a…
…in turn, find ways to try and close the loop. Carol Sinclair, Memory Bank. Photograph by Lynsey Wilson RBGE’s Lorna Fraser – an artist, who also works in the Herbarium…
…his lifetime John Duncan sometimes gifted books from his collection to friends. For example he gifted some books to John Taylor, when he worked over his herbarium, prior to its…
…around Scotland’s coast. This nutritious food contains all the nutrient groups we need and balances our diet with minerals missing from agricultural soils. Tidal Records study showing herbarium specimens and…
…heating is causing real changes to the Earth’s biota, can be a powerful tool to stimulate awareness and action. Our 150-year phenology programme and three million herbarium specimens are rich…
…design of the studio and darkroom in the new herbarium building opened by the Queen in 1964. This was in use for the next 40 years, under his successors Ken…
…data held in our Living, Herbarium and Archive Collections freely available via our institutional website and provide a wealth of information on our key research groups though our online resource…
…is the sheer number of different databases (each with its own acronym), with content ranging from taxonomic names, museum and herbarium specimens, citizen science observations, species distributions, DNA sequences, scientific…