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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.