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Herbarium specimens in new National Library exhibition

Two of our herbarium specimens from the 19th Century are in the new exhibition entitled PLAGUE! at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge. They make up part…

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  …

Finding faster ways to enter minimal data for herbarium specimens

There are nearly 3 million specimens being held in the herbarium at RBGE. We are working to digitise these specimens to make them available to people around the world, but…

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,…

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…

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…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. VIII. Amplification

…second row – 2009 herbarium, 2009 silica, 2009 herbarium; third row – 1948; 1948; 2004 herbarium; fourth row – 2004 herbarium; 1932 flower; 1932 flower; bottom row – 1932 leaf;…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. VII. Comparisons.

…NEB ng Library no. 2009 Herbarium Leaf DNeasy no 8 yes normal 101 100 1- 2009 Herbarium Leaf DNeasy yes 8 yes normal 101 101.5 1+ 2009 Herbarium Leaf QiaQuick…

The Indian botanical drawings reproduced in Ocean Flowers

…drawings were in the Library; those the size of herbarium sheets on the top floor of Wing D of the Herbarium. In 2004 nobody at Kew knew anything about the…

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Describing your DNA

herbarium; 1932 herbarium; 1932 herbarium; 1835 herbarium; 2009 silica; 1932 herbarium; 1932 herbarium One metric that can be obtained from a Genomic DNA ScreenTape assay is a DNA Integrity Number…

Choose your transcription path through people and plants

The RBGE Herbarium and citizen research Since 2017 the RBGE Herbarium has enlisted the help of volunteers to undertake the transcription of collection label information from herbarium specimens. We are…

Meet the Botanics Sniffer in Residence

Herbarium, asking ‘What is the smell of the Herbarium?’ the answer that came back was similarly reflexive and tautological: ‘It smells like the Herbarium.’ Herbarium folder containing specimens of the…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. VI. Size selection

…top row – unrepaired DNA: 2009 herbarium; 2009 silica; 2009 silica; repaired DNA: second row – 2009 herbarium, 2009 silica, 2009 herbarium; third row – 1948; 1948; 2004 herbarium; fourth…