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…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…
…around the world, while one is apparently disjunct between Scotland, Ireland, Central and South America and sub-Saharan Africa! By analysis of molecular sequence data and careful herbarium taxonomy we can…
…branch appears to be drawn life-size, i.e., almost 50 cm long and surely can’t have been made from an herbarium specimen, as the attached cones would be far too bulky…
…who helped me navigate the herbarium and sort through the material into boxes for future transfer to RBGE. At this point, having familiarised myself with names present in Oliver Gilbert’s…
…1878 — nearly 150 years ago. The gross morphology of this plant has been preserved in the herbarium specimen (as you can see in the pictures below), but the finer…
…the corolla characters (A) of Mandevilla callacataensis Markgr. (B). Photographs by Zoë Goodwin. In this study, I used online specimens, literature and herbarium specimens at RBGE including many recent collections…
…became engaged to Marisa Melville a member of staff in the Herbarium. In 1965 John was appointed supervisor in the Herbaceous Section at RBGE under the expert tutelage of the…
…to help them understand the diversity of living creatures and their interactions. These specimens have been gathered into institutions around the world like the herbarium and living collections of Edinburgh…