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（Royal Botanic Gardens Kew）标本馆（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液浸保存标本两类。邱园致力于让全球植物学家及其他相关从业者更便捷地获取这批珍贵馆藏，用于其相关研究项目，尤其聚焦生物多样性、物种保护、可持续发展与植物分类学领域。为此，邱园正在搭建电子植物标本馆目录系统，收录标本影像及其采集标签上的相关信息。邱园数字馆藏中的标本采集时间跨度达三个世纪，最早可追溯至18世纪初。其中包含超30万份推定模式标本（putative type specimens）及具有重要历史价值的标本，采集者包括诸多声名显赫的植物探险家、科考人员与科学家，例如查尔斯·达尔文、约瑟夫·道尔顿·胡克与纳撒尼尔·沃利奇等。