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…unlikely to have the correct name unless the whole group has recently been revised by an expert. The number of herbarium specimens worldwide is increasing exponentially. If you had asked…
…our DNA bank for reuse, instead of repeatedly raiding any one herbarium specimen. Pleioblastus amarus specimen (two herbarium sheets) collected in Sichuan, 1996 One of our major research projects at…
…lichens (herbarium); 11A-11H: bryophytes (herbarium); 12A-12H: Begonia (silica) QIAamp 96 DNA QIAcube HT kit extractions:Samples: 1A-1H: Conifers (silica); 2A-2G: Gingers (herbarium); 2H-6B: Sapotaceae (silica); 6C-7H: liverworts (silica); 8A-8F: Bamboos (herbarium);…
…the mounted sheets of his herbarium. Presumably soon after arrival a few of the collection were mounted, as ten with the same label have been found in the RBGE herbarium;…
…Collection of spathe Section of flowers collected Lesley Scott, an Assistant Curator in the Herbarium, was delighted to be involved with making the herbarium specimen: taking material from the living…
In the lead-up (or is it a wind-down?) to retirement I must clear my office, including four herbarium cabinets full of specimens laid aside from time to time pending further…
…era of genetics and genomics. Ian Hedge in the New Herbarium. Photograph from the RBGE Archive. Ian came to RBGE in 1951. After just three months he was called up…
…of an orchid herbarium specimen minimal data record, Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz, on the RBGE online herbarium catalogue record. https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00711687 We then launch virtual expeditions on DigiVol, a crowdsourced digitisation…
…RBGE Herbarium. https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00912828 Prunus spinosa: Fruiting specimen. RBGE Herbarium. https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E01152527 Total number of Specimens held in the British Collection within the Herbarium: 51 Specimens 1 The digitisation of this species…
…garden plants such as Digitalis (foxgloves), Antirrhinum (snapdragons), Hebe, Penstemon, Russelia and Veronica. Herbarium specimen of Antirrhinum L. This specimen was collected in 1787 and formed part of Giseke’s herbarium….
…Royal Scottish Academy and the National Gallery of Scotland, but the East Gate Lodge is… The Herbarium Officially opened by HM The Queen in 1964, the Herbarium and Library was…
This Blog post was written by Olivia Nippe, a PhD intern who spent three months working in the RBGE Herbarium: The RBGE herbarium contains over 3 million pressed plant specimens…
…Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854) started to amass a considerable herbarium of plant specimens on behalf of the EIC. This herbarium comprised of Wallich’s own collections made during his journeys through India,…
…decade apart – Sims in 1772, Smith in 1782). Rottler later sent a herbarium specimen, which is still in Smith’s herbarium at the Linnean Society of London, with the collection…
…earliest lessons in botany from John – spent time adding localities to the herbarium specimens before they were transferred. John had not added collection localities when preparing his herbarium specimens,…
…lawyer); Hunter joined the Society only two months later and both were keen contributors to the Society’s herbarium (making their first donations in December 1836). The specimens referred to by…
…specimen is placed in our drying room and weighted down; after a few days it is pressed and dried and can be moved to the herbarium. Herbarium specimens weighted down…
Today we have reached a new landmark with half a million herbarium specimens imaged and freely available online on our herbarium catalogue. You can visit and download all our specimen…
…herbarium. This (luckily well-curated) family takes up 45 of our herbarium cabinets. It was the first family worked on when I started at the herbarium, and I was very happy…
The following blog was written by Iain Ratter, a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…