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We are developing now a project of presenting of digital images of type specimens and historical collections of Moscow State University Herbarium (MW). The head of the project is Dr. Sergey Balandin from Geobotany department, Moscow State University. Two first goals are CD-ROMs with images of MW Linnaean and Forsters collections. The Linnaean CD is preparing in a collaboration with Dr. Charlie Jarvis (British Museum of Natural History) and the Forsters CD is developing in a collaboration with Dr. Dan Nicolson (U.S. National Herbarium). The Linnaean CD is now in a final phase of preparation. We hope it will be available from the British Museum of Natural History in July, 2000. The Linnaean CD is publishing with support from the U.S. National Herbarium, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
During the work with historical collections of Moscow University Herbarium we found a quite fine old herbarium. The herbarium contains some hundreds of specimens arranged in three old woody boxes. The format of each sheet is almost A4, and the paper possesses a distinctive type of watermarks. Each plant has a label with pre-Linnaean Latin name and a German name. Nothing else! It is very difficult for us to attribute the collection because it is so poorly labeled. It is reasonable to suppose that Prof. M.N. Karavaev who was the best specialist in old collections of Moscow University Herbarium did not attributed the collection. According to M.I. Nasarov (1926, in Izvestija Glavnogo Botanicheskogo Sada, 25 (3): 29) the herbarium was collected in early XIX century.
We are posting on the Web several images in hopes that someone could help us to identify the origin of the collection.
Please let us know if you have any ideas concerning this collections.
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| Salix Download High resolution Image |
Senna occidentalis Download High resolution Image |
Senna orientalis
hexaphyllum Download High resolution Image |
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| Smilax aspera Download High resolution Image |
Veratrum
sive Heleborus albus Download High resolution Image |
Cherri s.
Leucojum luteum Download High resolution Image |
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Section's curator: Majorov Sergey Robertovich Phone/fax: 7 (095) 939-2777 e-mail: alnus@herba.msu.ru |
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