Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Herbarium Specimens

The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew houses approximately seven million plant specimens, collected from all around the world. Specimens are either pressed and dried or preserved in spirit. Kew is committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and systematics. To this end Kew is building an electronic Herbarium Catalogue containing images of the specimens and information taken from their collection labels. Specimens represented in Kew’s digital collections have been collected over a period spanning three centuries, with examples dating back to the beginning of the 18th century. These include over 300,000 putative type and historically important specimens collected by plant hunters, explorers and scientists of great renown including Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Nathaniel Wallich, to name just a few.

英国皇家植物园邱园植物标本馆（Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Herbarium）馆藏约700万份采自全球各地的植物标本。这些标本分为压制干燥标本与酒精浸制标本两类。邱园致力于为全球范围内的植物学家及其他相关人员提供便捷的馆藏访问渠道，以支持其在生物多样性、保护生物学、可持续发展及植物系统学等领域的研究项目。为此，邱园正在构建电子植物标本馆目录，收录标本影像及其采集标签上的全部相关信息。邱园数字馆藏中的标本采集跨度长达三个世纪，最早可追溯至18世纪初期。其中包含逾30万份暂定模式标本（putative type specimen）及具有重要历史价值的馆藏标本，采集者包括诸多享誉全球的植物猎人、探险家与科学家，例如查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）、约瑟夫·道尔顿·胡克（Joseph Dalton Hooker）与纳撒尼尔·沃利奇（Nathaniel Wallich）等（仅举数例）。