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…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….
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…
…viewed through our herbarium catalog here. Top 5 regions No. of Specimens Herbarium Filing Region 2,464 India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 1,384 Britain and Ireland 2,226 North America 1,928 Inner China,…
The herbarium at RBGE holds around 3 million herbarium specimens. Each specimen consists of pressed plant material and a collection label mounted on archival card. They are used to identify…
…was to provide: 95,000 high quality images of herbarium specimens 5,000 digital photographs and scans of living plants 200 natural history artwork scans To date we have provided 185,559 records…
Throughout his catalogue of the East India Company Herbarium, Nathaniel Wallich makes reference to herbarium collections by using the abbreviations ‘Herb.’, ‘Hb.’ or simply ‘H.’ The clues to understanding what…
…this URL: http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/mobile/herbarium/ Or with the QR Code displayed. If you don’t have access to the herbarium you could pick some bar codes from our herbarium catalogue – which actually…
…Erica mannii (Hook.f.) Beentje A selection of Dr Hewan’s plant specimens held by RBGE’s herbarium Dr David Harris, herbarium curator and deputy director of science, says: “Dr Hewan was one…
…to Nepal (1820/1) and Burma (1826/7). The drawings formed a very minor part of his baggage, which consisted of 20 tons of herbarium specimens packed in 30 barrels, 52 chests…