The Herbarium Handbook

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Leonard Forman, Diane Bridson
Royal Botanic Gardens, 1989 - 214 стор.

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INTRODUCTION
1
What is taxonomy?
2
The development purpose and types of herbaria
4
THE HERBARIUM BUILDING COLLECTIONS AND MATERIALS 3 The herbarium building and specimen storage
8
Pests and treatments
13
Materials
20
Label design and production
34
HERBARIUM TECHNIQUES AND MANAGEMENT 7 Centralised accessioning recording and dispatch procedures
39
publications
107
The dissection of floral organs and preservation of the results
117
Illustration
124
The photographic copying of herbarium sheets
135
Collectors itineraries maps and gazetteers
136
Checklists
140
Introduction to computers
143
COLLECTING
144

Processing unmounted specimens
47
ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES 22 Rearrangement of herbarium collections according to
50
Mounting herbarium specimens
52
Plant names nomenclature
64
The arrangement of herbarium collections
67
Ancillary collections
72
Collections of illustrations and photographs
76
Handling herbarium specimens
82
Incorporation filing or layingin of mounted specimens
84
Curation of special groups
88
Duplicate distribution
91
Loans to other institutions
94
Visitors
97
Removal of samples from herbarium material
99
Essential herbarium literature
103
Collecting and preserving specimens
145
The collection of pteridophytes
166
The collection and curation of bryophytes
169
The collection and preservation of fungi and lichens
171
The collection of living material
178
Collecting for a seed bank
184
Photography and fieldwork
187
Collecting materials for ancillary disciplines
191
THE HERBARIUM IN A WIDER CONTEXT 37 Economic botany and the herbarium
195
Ecology and the herbarium
200
Conservation and the herbarium
203
REFERENCES
205
INDEX
211
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