Catalogue description British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: European Herbarium Visitors Books

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Details of DF 443
Reference: DF 443
Title: British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: European Herbarium Visitors Books
Description:

The series contains all the visitors books which have survived from the European Herbarium.

Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF BOT/443). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 443.

Date: 1929-1972
Held by: Natural History Museum Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 5 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

They were transferred to the archives from the British Herbarium in 1990.

Administrative / biographical background:

European plants were selected from the general collection and moved into their own herbarium between 1911 and 1914, with the British specimens joining them in 1916. The new European Herbarium occupied the east central gallery on the 2nd floor of the Museum. In 1967 the collection was again divided, and the British Herbarium, in the east central gallery, was separated from the continental European collection, which moved to the west central gallery.

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