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Description: | specimens from King's Lynn, Wolferton and West Norfolk
Collection of pressed vascular plants (plants which have specialized tissues for conducting water) collected in the latter half of the 20th century from locations throughout England (especially Norfolk, Suffolk, Teesdale and Surrey), Scotland, Wales, Ireland, northern Europe, the Isle of Wight, Channel Islands and Scilly Isles. 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 800 species are represented in the collection; there are several instances of each species, collected from different geographical locations. Eric Swann collected most of the specimens himself or jointly with other collectors and the collection benefitted from the contributions of about 350 field collectors, most notably John Brown and P.R. Libbey.
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.
Eric Swann (1904 = 1989) worked as a bank clerk in King's Lynn and was an amateur botanist. In his retirement he was elected the President of the Botanical Society of the British Isles and saw publication of the definitive 'Flora of Norfolk' which he had been writing with a friend for 20 years. He discovered a world first grass hybrid. | Format: | 5768 specimens | Temporal: | 20th century - early 1900-1930 20th century - late 1971-1999 20th century - mid 1931-1970 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:7419 | Format: | 5768 specimens | Go to resource |
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