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RBGE publication: Guide to Collecting Herbarium Specimens in the Field

…in herbaria (collections of preserved plant specimens for scientific study). Some of the methods for collecting herbarium specimens are similar to those developed centuries ago, but there are also new…

Herbarium-inspired poetry

…think of the Herbarium as a source of inspiration for poetry. I find Anna’s poetry truly wondrous and captivating, all the more so having witnessed her enthusiasm when I introduced…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. XI. Some metagenomics of a herbarium specimen

…Mi-Seq sequencing. Fig. 2. Tapestation trace for Inga umbellifera DNA from Mathews’ 1835 herbarium sheet We analysed the sequence data from the Tru-Seq and NEB-Next libraries separately, as our study…

A sculptural take on our Herbarium collection

…Niven ’s work at www.bobbyniven.com Artists wishing to visit the Herbarium collection or the Library & Archives at RBGE, please email herbarium@rbge.org.uk and library@rbge.org.uk respectively. Written by Lesley Scott.  …

Part 1/2: ‘Sensing and Presencing the Imperceptible’, Siân Bowen’s Micro-conference

herbarium curator, took us to the Herbarium and shared intriguing and fascinating facts about plants and species stored within. This tour was an important insight into Siân Bowen’s process of…

Towards 3 million specimens: It’s a steal for Magnolias!

The following post was written by Chris Knowles, a digitiser working in the RBGE Herbarium. As part of my first year at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh as a herbarium

Type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE

…the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE collected? Where the types in the herbarium at RBGE were collected Who collected the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE  …

When were the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE collected?

…the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE collected? Where the types in the herbarium at RBGE were collected Who collected the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE  …

Visit by Dr Alexander Demidov & Ms Svetlana Potapova to the RBGE Herbarium March 2017

…on Thursday 9th March 2017 for a tour of the herbarium and an insight into the RBGE herbarium digitisation program. Dr Alexander Demidov being shown Herbarium digitisation at RBGE (E)…

Festival Fun with Frankenstein’s Plants

This year for the first time, the herbarium team ran Frankenstein’s Plants, an event for the Edinburgh Science Festival. Participants were able to build their very own unique herbarium specimen…

I love the smell of herbaria in the morning

…The main victorian herbarium at Kew Basement of Kew’s herbarium Kew’s herbarium is a very different beast to the modern herbarium of the NHM. The main herbarium is a beautiful…

George Don sr. (1764-1814)

…& Herbarium Britannicum Don’s plant collections were extensively used by James Edward Smith to describe plant species new to science. However, Don published three new species, in his Herbarium Britannicum:…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. III. The Samples.

…16L 145, FRENCH GUIANA, Inselberg Grand Plateau (E) – we had both silica-dried tissue and the herbarium material for this collection. The green colour of the herbarium material in the…

Two newly-found moss specimens from Darwin’s Beagle Voyage

herbarium with him to Kew, but Greville’s herbarium remained in Edinburgh, and Arnott’s in Glasgow. Fortunately, Hooker was extremely generous with his specimens and gave many duplicates to his friends…

Ecologists and Taxonomists Working Together

…of herbarium specimens. Both datasets have their strengths. Her analysis of the ecological plot data highlights one set of Gilbertiodendron dewevrei associates and the herbarium specimen data works better for…

The first steps towards the Flora of Myanmar

…South Asian material in herbarium region 5 into 5 sub-regions has made the digitisation of Myanmar herbarium specimens much easier. You can read more about that project here. Important collections…

Towards 3 million: British Bluebells – Hyacinthoides non-scripta & Campanula rotundifolia

…Hyacinthoides non-scripta: 55 specimens  Scottish bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia: 82 specimens  Herbarium specimen of Hyacinthoides non-scripta collected in 1905 by S.E. Brock Herbarium specimen of Hyacinthoides non-scripta collected as part of…

In grateful thanks: the rediscovery of some long-lost Acadian specimens of Archibald Menzies

…November 1784, were seeds and dried specimens collected in Nova Scotia, with an accompanying list of the specimens. Nobody knew that any of these had survived, as Hope’s herbarium has…

Who collected the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE

…in Aneura Type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE When were the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE collected? Where the types in the herbarium at RBGE were collected…

Where the types in the herbarium at RBGE were collected

…February 2016 Tidying up in Aneura Type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE When were the type specimens in the herbarium at RBGE collected? Where the types in the herbarium