1/2 Our work discovering new species before they become extinct depends on #KewHerbarium being easily accessible to scientists & connected with the rest of Kew. If it is moved to Reading, accessibility will be reduced, connectivity lost & the herbarium will need closing for…
Marc Quinn’s compelling & powerful link between #herbarium specimens & cures for cancer is stunning. 🍃 Help us save #KewHerbarium from cultural vandalism. Sign our petition to stop DEFRA relocate Kew Herbarium away from its purpose built building. 🔗 pinned. #marcquinn #heritage
Zigzag-like sori pattern. Diplazium proliferum. Here a Specimen from Ghana in #kewherbarium #fernfriday
❄️Kew Green on a frosty morning with St. Ann’s church built in 1714 and #KewHerbarium , attached to a Georgian house built in the 1770s… Layers of London #SaveKewHerbarium #KewGreen #WorldHeritage layersoflondon.org/map/records/ke…
🌿 Exciting news! Our beautiful display ready for an informative journey through the Kew Herbarium on the upcoming UKRI tour✨ #UKRI #KewHerbarium #InformativeTour #HerbariumCuration
I just love old botanical photography and we have some beautiful examples in amongst #KewHerbarium . This photo of Nepenthes pervillei and unknown boy, transports me to an expedition in Seychelles, 1905. Photo: J.S. Gardiner. #curation #kewscience
Delighted to showcase the #KewHerbarium #collection to the Assistant Private Secretary to the King, Dr Jonathan Ross and family today in the oldest wing of Kew. #HerbariumDisplay #CuratorialExcellence #taxonomy
🌱Last week we welcomed descendants of our first directors William and Joseph Hooker to #KewHerbarium & #KewArchives for a tour of the herbarium and a peek at the legacy of their predecessors 🌿
#curation #taxonomy #collections
Digitisation of #kewherbarium has revealed this creative mounting technique using a #RoyalMail postage stamp to secure specimen to the sheet Kew Science. #digitisation #curation #herbarium Alison Moore
Newly accessioned #Rubiaceae specimens from Africa and Madagascar ready to be layed away #curation @kewscience #kewherbarium #IDandNaming
I love the vantage point you get from the upper floors of the #KewHerbarium -Kew Africa team’s David Goyder sorting what look to be freshly mounted African specimens & #FloraMalesiana Legends, the de Wildes, naming Malesian Myristicaceae round the other side #nutmeg
Identification Station work to be done fun to be had #botanist #taxonomist #KewHerbarium #kewsciencefest 4-6 Aug Kew Science #CupboardLove
It may be dusty but this Madagascan specimen was collected before 1883 making it over 130 years old Kew Science #historicalrecord #kewherbarium #curation #diospyros #Madagascar #IDandNaming #kewgardens
Wing B of #KewHerbarium (K) is a beautiful building site at the moment! At the end we will have energy efficient lights & a new roof 🌿🤩. That’s the Wallich Herbarium (K-W) on the left of the 1st pic.
Congrats Charlotte Couch who was awarded the William Aiton medal for #kewherbarium reorg to APG 3 Kew Science
Feeling so grateful for the opportunity to experience the unique connection between nature and science behind herbarium specimens at the Marc Quinn exhibition at Kew Gardens. A must-see for all nature lovers! 🌿 #KewHerbarium #natureart