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Herbarium Handbook Herbarium Handbook

These pages give an introduction to a herbarium: how the botanists work with the collection and look after it and why careful maintenance of a herbarium is so important. You can read more in the following texts:

100 uses of an Herbarium
V.Funk(2004)

Biological Nomenclature
Charles Jeffreys (1977) Edward Arnold. 72 pp.

The Herbarium Handbook
D.Bridson and L.Forman (2004) Manual for Herbarium Curation. Edition 3. Kew Publishers.

Herbarium Catalogue