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Description: | Collection of pressed vascular plants (plants which have specialized tissues for conducting water) collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from locations throughout England, especially Norfolk, The Scilly and Channel Islands, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Europe. The collection is a representative flora of Britain. Each plant is attached to a sheet of foolscap paper by means of paper collars, in a manner to show the various parts of each plant; leaves, flowers, roots etc to best effect. The sheets of paper also detail each plant's Latin name and occasionally its English name, together with the date and place of field collection, and the habitat in which the specimen was found. The sheets of paper are arranged into folders and the whole collection is arranged in order of increasing complexity according to the rules of taxonomy. Over 1000 species are represented in the collection, each species normally appearing only once or twice. Frederick Long collected most of his specimens himself although some were given to him by another 117 field collectors and he was a member of the Watson Botanical Exchange Club. He mounted all of his specimens himself. The collection is fully digitally catalogued. The collection is not on display and is housed together with other herbarium collections in the Shirehall Study Centre where it may be viewed by appointment.
Frederick Long (1840 = 1927) practised as a doctor in Wells-next-the-Sea until 1899, when he retired to Norwich. He was a member of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society, serving as President and Vice-President, and he delivered a number of papers which were published in the Society's transactions. He recorded the first instance of a number of plants for Norfolk and one specimen for the country as a whole. He compiled a manuscript catalogue of the Salmon Herbarium which was in the possession of Norwich Castle Museum and updated the Latin plant names.
plants from Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk | Format: | 2299 specimens | Temporal: | 20th century - early 1900-1930 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7402 | Format: | 2299 specimens | Go to resource |
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