"It is one of the finest Victorian portraits in the museum, and is now appropriately displayed in the Natural Cheshire gallery along with Eliza's
herbarium."
"At a time when local independent shops are struggling and the Government is looking for ways to help, Shropshire Council is slapping a big cost on businesses if they have an A-board, tables and chairs, fruit and veg or just some plants outside like the
Herbarium does.
Ms Murray-Mudson said the PSUB
herbarium had imported about 2610 botanical data records of plant specimens as well as 1500 digital images to date.
The Blatter
Herbarium holds several treasures of printed botanical art: five original volumes of Adriaan Van Reede's Hortus Indicus Malabaricus (1678-93), older books including Cristobal Acosta's Tractado de las drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales (1578), Garcia da Orta's Coloquios dos simples e drogas da India (1563) and Robert Wight's Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis (1840-53).
Ten exsiccates were added to the collection in the
Herbarium of the Institute de la Patagonia (HIP #15065(4), 15066(3), 15067(3)) at the University of Magallanes (UMAG), five were sent to the
Herbarium of the University of Concepcion (CONC #184295-184297 two duplicates), Concepcion; five were taken to the National
Herbarium at the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago de Chile (SGO #167991-167995), three were sent to Mexico's National
Herbarium (MEXU #820, 890, 891) at the University Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and earlier exsiccates of R.
Although the basic methodology of collecting, pressing and handling
herbarium sheets has not changed substantially over time, their use has markedly evolved.
Time spent in the forest and
herbarium with William Hawthorne and Daniel K.
Long-term phenology monitoring and
herbarium specimens (pressed plants) are two sources of historical flowering and fruiting phenology data that record the timing of flowering or fruiting at a specific location in a specific year (Fig.
The students, from Ali Bin Jassim Bin Mohammed Al-Thani Secondary Independent School for Boys, visited the QBG
Herbarium and explored the QF Nursery where researchers explained the biological processes that take place inside greenhouses and how QBG conserves their plants.
At NYBG, for example, tucked away in manila folders, stacked in four floors of climate-controlled cabinets, are 7.8 million dried specimens, forming the second-largest such collection, or
herbarium, in the world.
The Sharjah Seed Bank and
Herbarium (SSBH) of the Sharjah Research Academy (SRA) was established in 2009 to explore, collect, and conserve the plant genetic resources of the country.
An open day will be held at Treborth Botanic Garden on the same day and to coincide with this there will be a display of historic pressed plants from the
herbarium to view at the museum.