Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Botany Collection

Containing around three-quarters of a million specimens, the botanical collection forms a physical record of where plants and fungi have been found. The Museum collection has grown from the mid-19th century onwards as people with a passion for the natural world have donated their personal collections. The backbone of the collection was created by merging three large private collections from James Cosmo Melvill (worldwide plants donated in 1904), Leopold Hartley Grindon (cultivated plants donated in 1910) and Charles Bailey (European plants donated in 1917). The most recent significant addition has been the collection of British brambles donated by Alan Newton in 2012.

本植物标本馆藏件约75万件，是植物与真菌发现地点的实体留存记录。本馆馆藏自19世纪中期起逐步扩充，一众热爱自然的人士通过捐赠私人收藏，推动馆藏规模持续增长。本馆藏的核心框架由三份大型私人收藏合并而成，分别为詹姆斯·科斯莫·梅尔维尔（James Cosmo Melvill）于1904年捐赠的全球范围植物标本、利奥波德·哈特利·格林登（Leopold Hartley Grindon）于1910年捐赠的栽培植物标本，以及查尔斯·贝利（Charles Bailey）于1917年捐赠的欧洲植物标本。近年最具重要性的新增馆藏为2012年由艾伦·牛顿（Alan Newton）捐赠的英国悬钩子属植物收藏。