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Towards 3 million specimens: Digitising Scrophulariaceae

The following blog was written by Becky 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 specimens: Primula vulgaris: A Herald of Spring

The following blog was written by Courtney Kemnitz 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 specimens: Malpighiaceae

The following blog was written by Linde Hess 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: Lentibulariaceae

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: Proteaceae

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…

Towards 3 million: Iridaceae

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…

Towards 3 million: Acanthaceae

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…

Capturing Genes from Herbaria. X. An update.

Last May (the 15th, to be precise), we sent three eppendorf tubes containing Illumina Tru-Seq and NEB-Next libraries constructed from Inga DNAs, most of which had been extracted from herbarium

Colonel and Mrs Walker: Ceylon 1830–1838

…a series of studies by Henry Noltie on little-known collections in the RBGE herbarium and archives. As with previous work the specimens form part of the herbarium of George Walker-Arnott…

Hidden diversity in unexpected places – moss growth on modern building surfaces

Back in 2014, staff in the molecular lab and herbarium at RBGE greatly enjoyed a three-week visit from Austrian Dr Wolfgang Hofbauer. With funding from the EU SYNTHESYS programme, Wolfgang,…

The Aneura Working Group meeting, Trondheim, 8th-12th February 2016

…The university building is modern and airy, with open atriums the height of the building, planted with dead bamboo. Ana and I made our way to the Herbarium, a windowless…

Gesneriaceae Research in Indonesia – Celebrating our science and horticulture throughout March for International Women’ s Day

…and herbarium specimens, especially from under-collected parts of the world. Indonesia is one such place; one of the most biodiverse countries in the world with one of the poorest known…

Impressions of a workshop: New model systems for early land plant evolution, 22 – 24 June 2016, Vienna, Austria

Herbarium My own talk was a meander through the complex thalloid liverworts. The aim was to highlight the RBGE’s outstanding collection of dead complex thalloid plants, both as herbarium specimens…

The RBGE DNA database – how an EDNA number is assigned to a DNA extraction

…day. Herbarium barcode: this is ONLY for RBGE herbarium barcodes, not those from other institutes. If this is available, filling this in will propagate specimen data from the herbarium database….

In memory of Captain Robert Chapman Davie (1886-1919)

…working at Edinburgh. Davie’s photograph of the laboratory at the Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro in 1914 – could that be his vasculum (collecting tin) and herbarium specimens being pressed…

How many people does it take to revise a genus?

…1923. We then spent a week going through all the Desplatsia specimens in the herbarium at Kew. Jan Wieringa, curator at the herbarium at Naturalis in Leiden, gave us a…

RBGE and Monitoring Ecosystem Health in the Tropics

At the core of RBGE’s scientific mission is to “explore” the world of plants and on the 350th anniversary of our foundation, the herbarium’s 3 million specimens from 157 countries…

Monthly dementia friendly garden social

…and became one of the most prolific collectors in the early 20th century. He travelled Australia before joining the herbarium staff at Edinburgh where he worked for two years before…

A Lockdown Flora of Melville Street, Edinburgh: Chloris Via-Melvilliana

…Alexander Fisher, and James Ross; there are many duplicates in the RBGE herbarium). Brown, for the title of his account, instead of using the conventional Latin name of the goddess…

Growing ferns from spores in Nepal

herbarium specimens and a full data set with information about the location, habitat, associated flora and the individual plants (such as height, girth, sex and health) from which material was…