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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: European Herbarium Visitors...

Catalogue reference: DF 443

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This record is about the British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: European Herbarium Visitors... dating from 1929-1972.

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Reference
DF 443
Title
British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: European Herbarium Visitors Books
Date
1929-1972
Description

The series contains all the visitors books which have survived from the European Herbarium.

Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF BOT/443). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 443.

Held by
The Natural History Museum Archives, London
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
5 volume(s)
Access conditions
Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition
They were transferred to the archives from the British Herbarium in 1990.
Subjects
Topics
Museums and galleries
Administrative / biographical background

European plants were selected from the general collection and moved into their own herbarium between 1911 and 1914, with the British specimens joining them in 1916. The new European Herbarium occupied the east central gallery on the 2nd floor of the Museum. In 1967 the collection was again divided, and the British Herbarium, in the east central gallery, was separated from the continental European collection, which moved to the west central gallery.

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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: European Herbarium Visitors Books