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Towards 3 million specimens: This lizard’s tail has been snapped before…

…in the herbarium, with the biggest change to the sheet being the barcode I added to it for the digitisation project. The photographs we take for herbarium digitisation project use…

Towards 3 million specimens: Annonaceae

The following blog was written by Chris Knowles, a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…

Exploring Greville’s Botanical Illustrations

…KOHA ID in Specify 7, thereby ensuring the integration between the Library’s cataloguing system and the Herbarium’s data management system. Moreover, I incorporate the unique identifier URL from the Herbarium

Towards 3 million: Schlegeliaceae, Martyniaceae, Byblidaceae & Stemonuraceae

herbarium (10 specimens). No. of Specimens Herbarium Filing Region 10 Nepal 9 India, Pakistan & Bangladesh 9 North America 8 Cultivated 7 Central America 7 East Tropical South America With…

Towards 3 million: The common daisy – Bellis perennis

…Society of the British Isles.  Total number of Specimens held in the British and Irish Collection within the Herbarium*: 66 Specimens  Our *Please note, that the Herbarium contains more specimens…

Towards 3 million: Saxifragaceae

The following blog was written by Rose Kent a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August 2024. Each…

Towards 3 million: The Thistle – Cirsium vulgare & Onopordum acanthium

…the British Isles. Total number of Specimens held in the British Collection within the Herbarium*: 44 Cirsium vulgare; 32 Onopordum acanthium  *Please note, that the Herbarium contains more specimens from other…

Online Resources for Taxonomic Research

…(see also the Harvard University Herbarium version). Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project includes links on the homepage to historic online herbaria at the NHM. Literature Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum (BPH & BPH/S) for…

Lost before found: Was there more than one species in Monocarpus?

…Most of the collection, which was sent out as a loan from the Bolus Herbarium in Cape Town to the National Herbarium, Pretoria (PRE), has, according to T. Trinder-Smith, been…

Francis Buchanan’s Bengal Survey botanical drawings and specimens reunited after 203 years

…London between 1828 and 1832, during which time he also curated the massive EIC herbarium. The second largest group prove to have been made for John Forbes Royle at the…

Why it takes 100 years to get to know a plant

…time it takes to know the bare minimum about a species. In this paper we chose the point when there are 15 correctly identified herbarium specimens to indicate when we…

Botanical Drawings made in Nepal for Nathaniel Wallich in 1821 by Vishnupersaud and Gorachand

…Buchanan[-Hamilton]’s name), based on specimens in the herbarium of A.B. Lambert, which must have been collected by the Hon. Edward Gardner, British Resident at the Court of Nepal. The drawing,…

The Divine Bog-moss, Sphagnum divinum, found but now lost in Scotland

…from the Glasgow University Herbarium when the cryptogamic collections were transferred to RBGE in 2005, and that they were in the herbarium of George Arnott Walker Arnott (1799−1868), one of…

Mercedes Chanek – a hidden Indigenous plant collector from Belize

…forests and savannas of Belize. Including the entire herbarium collection at the National Herbarium of Belize (BRH) in Belmopan. But I had never heard of Mercedes Chanek or her specimens….

Meet the Valerian Family

…post was written by Jane Cummins a herbarium volunteer working on the South Asia Curation Project. Our herbarium collections are organised into 19 floristic geographical regions. Traditionally at RBGE region…

Students’ Stories: “George Herbert Cave” by Dean Blake, 3rd Year Horticulture with Plantsmanship student at RBGE

…Darjeeling; twenty-seven of these specimen collections date between 1909-1924 and are preserved in the RBGE Herbarium. George Herbert Cave received recognition from prominent figures of the period, both for military…

Towards 3 million specimens: Ilex aquifolium: A Symbol of Christmas and Beyond

…British Isles (BSBI). Total number of specimens held in the British Collection within the Herbarium*: 53 specimens *Please note, that the Herbarium contains more specimens of Ilex aquifolium from other…

Towards 3 million specimens: Digitising Phyllanthaceae

…of SpecimensHerbarium Filing region1,206 India, Bangladesh & Pakistan 1,090 Indo-china 1,055 Inner China, Korea & Taiwan 1,016 Malay Islands 471 Tropical Africa Filing region definitions Herbarium specimen of Phyllanthus emblica…

Towards 3 million: Calceolariaceae, Stilbaceae and Paulowniaceae

The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…

Towards 3 million: Fabulous fungi found in peculiar places

The following blog was written by Chris Knowles a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1 million specimens…