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Born Lamington, 2 May 1780; died Madras, 24 November 1819 When discussing the collectors of the ‘Wallich’ Herbarium, William Somervell Mitchell was not included as his collections were not sent…
…Garden Edinburgh we have, lurking in herbarium cabinets, some amazing historic Tea specimens. James McNabs’s teaching specimens. These two specimens would have been used to for teaching the Botany students…
Close up of capsule from George Forrest herbarium specimen of Rhododendron forrestii In the Autumn of 1914, George Forrest was travelling in China. His letters written at the time…
…enter into a small, carefully lit space. The look is profoundly reminiscent of the Herbarium, suggestive of the cabinets she opened, to see dried pressed specimens of the botanical plant…
…sequence data, the herbarium voucher specimens for the accessions that were sequenced needed to be digitized, and the images, sequence files and all accompanying data submitted to the official Barcode…
I recently joined the research staff of the RBGE as a fern taxonomist focusing on the diversity of tropical southeast Asia. RBGE is perfect for me. Its herbarium houses rich…
…(both on-site and online) and staff at RBGE and NYBG have worked together to complete the digitisation of the 16,877 vascular plant herbarium specimens from Myanmar held at RBGE. This…
…follow after agreeing to sell his herbarium to Harvard. However, Caroline died September 1894. Specimen of Phacelia heterophylla https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E01010634 Specimen of Mertensia sibirica https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E01077688 The specimens we have in the…
…how we set up to observe bryophytes in our herbarium. Their herbarium conservation and observation strategies are a little different to most flowering plants’, given their small size. Credit: Diego…
…of the Wallich (or East India Company) Herbarium. Part IV February 7, 2021 The Collectors of the Wallich (or East India Company) Herbarium. Part III February 6, 2021 The Collectors…
Unidentified Forrest specimen from the genus Primula George Forrest was a prolific plant hunter; it’s estimated that here in the herbarium there are around 31,000 pressed plant specimens collected by…
…Smith became Keeper of the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta. While in Calcutta, and then later in Lloyd Botanic Garden Darjeeling, Cooper studied botany and horticulture under the…
…herbarium. All four institutions are the collaborating partners working on the Flora of Nepal, so everyone benifits from the fieldwork. Patick and myself have spent time working on the Pedicularis…
…trepidation I spent many hours brushing up on Bhutanese trees, studying the Grierson & Long field books from the 1980’s, and photographing herbarium specimens of oaks to refer to in…
Crane-fly Tipula maxima on outside of back door of herbarium building, 29 June 2015. Photo Robert Mill. On the morning of 29 June I arrived at the back door of…
…in September 2009, we received another email from Australian National Herbarium’s Chris Cargill, who had just attended the Australasian Bryophyte Workshop in Western Australia. There, Chris met up with Pina…
…into some of the photo folders Julia worked on We looked at Primula sherriffae in the herbarium, collected by Ludlow and Sherriff in SE Bhutan in 1934. As I catalogued,…
…as a versatile crop that has edible leaves and fruits. In Scotland it is not native, but we are confident it will grow here as our herbarium has numerous examples…
…good documentary evidence of the decline of the two species, preserved for posterity in the herbarium at RBGE. Although RBGE was founded in 1670, the establishment of the herbarium dates…
One of the main problems with sampling largely from herbarium specimens, rather than from material that has been specifically collected for DNA work (rapidly dried in silica gel then maintained…