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…database records and making these available online. The National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories (KATH), Kathmandu, Nepal – part of DPR – is a small herbarium that contains approximately 165,000 herbarium…
Dilsea carnosa Whilst digitising the British algae, we have been finding some interesting and beautiful seaweeds. This Dilsea carnosa, collected in Shetland, is particularly appropriate with Valentines day this weekend……
4th August 1914 – collections on the day that war was declared between Britain and Germany On the 4th August 1914 the tension was building during the day as the…
…DNA extractable from the sample. This let us genetically characterise samples collected on recent field work, as well as samples collected many years ago. The RBGE Herbarium http://www.scotsman.com/news/what-s-in-a-name-a-mass-of-analysis-1-3666334 The Herbarium…
…by herbarium technicians. Likes: Stepping into the Herbarium, a haven of tranquillity. Meeting people from a variety of backgrounds, both staff and other volunteers is a bonus. Dislikes: Visitors who…
…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…
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…
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…
…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…
…& 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:…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…