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Description: | specimens from Surrey, England
Collection of pressed vascular plants (plants which have specialized tissues for conducting water) collected in the mid 19th century from locations throughout England, most commonly Surrey, the Channel Islands, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Europe. 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 from 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 1600 species are represented in the collection, each species normally appearing only once or twice. The collection is fully digitally catalogued. J.D. Salmon collected most of the specimens although some were given to him by another 276 field collectors. 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.
In the early years of the 20th century, Frederick Long compiled a manuscript catalogue of the Salmon herbarium, and updated the Latin plant names. The collection is almost fully digitally catalogued. The actual herbarium itself is accompanied by a number of Salmon's botanical reference books interleaved with his handwritten notes and references to examples from his own collection, together with his diaries from 1825 to 1837 containing botanical observations.
John Drew Salmon (1802 = 1859) originated from Norfolk and spent his early working life in Thetford, at which time he collected Breckland flora, although he was also interested in ornithology. He moved to Godalming in Surrey, and from then on his interest in botany dominated. He joined the Botanical Society of London, serving as a local secretary and eventually joining the Council, and participated in their annual exchanges of herbarium specimens. He published papers in the Phytologist and compiled (with helpers) a flora of Surrey (published after his death) dividing the county into botanical districts, a practice which was just becoming standard at the time. He was a member of the Linnean Society and an honorary member of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. In addition to the herbarium he also donated a collection of pressed seaweeds. | Format: | 3464 specimens, together with books, ephemera and diaries | Temporal: | 20th century - early 1900-1930 19th century - early Victorian 1837-1850 19th century - early 1800-1836 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:7415 | Format: | 3464 specimens, together with books, ephemera and diaries | Go to resource |
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