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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 Channel Islands, Scotland and Wales. 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 collected. 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 100 species are represented in the collection, each species normally appearing only once or twice. William Nicholson collected most of the specimens although some were given to him by another 30 field collectors, mainly Fred Robinson. 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.
William A. Nicholson (1858 = 1935) worked for Gurney's Bank and started his interest in botany when he joined the Science Gossip Club. He was a member of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society, and was Honorary Secretary and Editor for a number of years. He spent over thirty years writing and editing A Flora of Norfolk, published in 1914.
specimens from Norfolk | Format: | 128 specimens | Temporal: | 20th century - early 1900-1930 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7348 | Format: | 128 specimens | Go to resource |
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