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Description: | specimens from Norfolk Broadland
Collection of pressed vascular plants (plants which have specialized tissues for conducting water) collected in the first half of the 20th century from locations throughout England, most commonly Norfolk (and especially the Broads), the Channel Islands, Skye 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. 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 350 species are represented in the collection, each species normally appearing only once or twice.
Philip Rumbelow (1879 = 1954) was a Yarmouth naturalist and collected most of the specimens himself, although some were given to him by another 6 field collectors, notably Dr. E.A. Ellis, a noted Norfolk naturalist. 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. | Format: | 619 specimens | Temporal: | 20th century - early 1900-1930 19th century - early Victorian 1837-1850 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:7409 | Format: | 619 specimens | Go to resource |
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