Haeckel speaks somewhat slightingly of "museum zoologists and herbarium botanists," because they merely classify animals and plants according to genera and species.
It is the business of special sciences to classify being after the manner of herbarium botany.
Undoubtedly the knowledge of the museum zoologists and herbarium botanists was meager, narrow, mechanical, and modern science offers a far better portrait of truth and life.
The original herbarium of Linnaeus is in the possession of the Linnaean Society of London.
The collections of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, his son Adrien, and of Auguste de St Hilaire, are included in the large herbarium of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and in the same city is the extensive private collection of Dr Ernest Cosson.
At the herbarium in Brussels are the specimens obtained by the traveller Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, the majority of which formed the groundwork of his Flora Brasiliensis.
Hence a good herbarium forms an indispensable part of a botanical museum or institution.
Thus the herbarium at the British Museum, which is especially rich in the earlier collections made in the 18th and early 19th centuries, contains the types of many species founded by the earlier workers in botany.
To ensure that all shall lie evenly in the herbarium the plants should be made to occupy as far as possible alternately the right and left sides of their respective sheets.
The herbarium at Melbourne, Australia, under Baron Muller, attained large proportions; and that of the Botanical Garden of Calcutta is noteworthy as the repository of numerous specimens described by writers on Indian botany.
The value of a herbarium is much enhanced by the possession of "types," that is, the original specimens on the study of which a species was founded.
Roots and fruits too bulky to be placed on the sheet of the herbarium may be conveniently arranged in glass-covered boxes contained in drawers.
Lichens for the herbarium should, whenever possible, be sought for on a slaty or laminated rock, so as to procure them on flat thin pieces of the same, suitable for mounting.
It was very early introduced into England, and is mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon Herbarium under its Latin name of Ros marinus, and is there translated by Bothen, i.
And the specimen in the Herbarium at Kew bears my name.
Ascending the Roraima, Mr. Dressel, collecting for Mr. Sander, lost his herbarium in the Essequibo River.
It was Archibald Menzies who first made it known to science, by means of herbarium specimens collected in 1792, when, as the companion of Vancouver, he visited the western coasts of North America.
Ruiz and Pavon, were botanizing in Chili, and came across the Araucaria, of which they sent herbarium specimens to Europe.
They are almost opposite on the twigs, and when dried for the herbarium turn black.
I scoured the mountains of Malta, of Sicily, and of Italy, and my herbarium was much richer than I.
At this moment, I would have given three of the most beautiful plants in my herbarium for a quarter of an hour of solitude.
In order to complete his herbarium he was studying the country, the animals, and the people.
Moreover, my health was good and my herbarium magnificent.
Should I leave such a lacuna and present my herbarium to the Museum of Hamburg, without the boryana variabilis?
As it appeared probable that this plant would capture a greater number of animals in its native country than under culture, I obtained permission to remove small portions of the rhizomes from dried specimens in the herbarium at Kew.
Oliver to send me fragments from the herbarium at Kew.
Rex, of Philadelphia, for the identification of my specimens, with those in the herbarium of Schweinitz, under the name of Physarum effusum.
Specimens of this species in the herbarium of Schweinitz are labeled Physarum sulphureum; this is without doubt a mistake.
Rex by comparison with a specimen from Curtis in the herbarium of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences.
The specimen in the herbarium of Schweinitz, marked Physarum reticulatum, is not this species, though it answers well enough to the original description.
By persistent hammering I have succeeded in beating the idea of the paintedherbarium into this naughty, unruly head.
The lesson finished, he wished to commence his herbarium under my eyes.
The most important cut-paper work on record is Mrs. Delany's herbarium or paper mosaics, but this did not come till the last quarter of the century.
The cut-work paper in England never equalled that of Mrs. Block until Mrs. Delany's herbarium in the late eighteenth century out-distanced all competitors.
His specimens, preserved in the herbarium at Kew, are partly A.
For example, a herbarium was suggested from which specimens could be obtained for display of the actual drug with painted pictures of its plant next to it.
The Indian and Jamaican barks were accompanied by herbarium specimens of the leaf and flower (and, in some cases, the fruit) of each variety of tree from which the bark was obtained.
A small herbarium was however collected by me, containing nearly five hundred species: they are in the possession of my respected friend Aylmer B.
I was looking after the funeral and all that, for Taylor and I were great friends--he left me that herbarium in memory of our time in Cashmere.
Well, just after I joined we chummed together in Cashmere, where he was making the herbarium at which you have been looking.
Of mugwort we read in theHerbarium of Apuleius, "And if a root of this wort be hung over the door of any house then may not any man damage the house.
The treatise on it in the Herbarium of Apuleius is supposed to be an abridged copy of a treatise on the virtues of this plant written by Antonius Musa, physician to the Emperor Augustus.
In the Herbarium of Apuleius, including the additions from Dioscorides, only 185 plants are mentioned, and this was one of the standard works of the early Middle Ages.
That both types sport into each other has long been recognized in field-observations, and has been the ground for the specific name of amphibium, though in this respect herbarium material seems usually to be scant.
He wrote a complete description [523] of it and his type specimens are still preserved in the herbarium of the Museum, where I have compared them with the plants of my own culture.
The herbariumresembles the bright, living reality no more than the morgue at St. Bernard's is a specimen of mountain travellers.
Yet one thing an herbarium is good for: in looking at it you can recall how they looked, and glowed, and waved in life, with all their silver-crowned mountains around them.
He soon brought together, chiefly by widespread exchanges, a valuable herbarium and library, and arranged the garden; and thereafter the development of these botanical resources was part of his regular labours.
The herbarium soon became the largest and most valuable in America, and on account of the numerous type specimens it contains it is likely to remain a collection of national importance.
The Herbarium aims at representing the entire vegetation of the earth with especial regard to that of British possessions.
Moulds are always troublesome to preserve in a herbarium in a state sufficiently perfect for reference after a few years.
Two or three accessories to a good herbarium may be named.
In arranging specimens for the herbarium, a diversity of taste and opinion exists as to the best size for the herbarium paper.
Linnæus, in 1747, prepared his Flora Zeylanica, from specimens collected by Hermann, which had previously constituted the materials of the Thesaurus Zeylanicus of Burman and now form part of the herbarium in the British Museum.
Most of the names accredited to Linnaeus were given to plants he never saw except as dried herbarium specimens from the New World.
The specimens swelled the great herbarium at the University of Upsala.
The sheets of the herbarium should all be of exactly the same dimensions.
The specimens of an herbarium may be kept in folded sheets of paper; or they may be fastened on half-sheets of thick and white paper, either by gummed slips, or by glue applied to the specimens themselves.
The herbariumof Linnaeus is on paper of the common foolscap size, about eleven inches long and seven wide.
In the meantime two things have happened; Mr. Lister has examined the specimens remaining in the Strasburg herbariumand finds them with reticulate spores.
The type from the Schweinitz herbarium is no longer in evidence.
Persoon's herbarium specimens of the species bearing the name cited.
The process of fruiting should be watched as far as possible, and for herbarium material, allowed to pass to perfection in the field.
Professor Morgan's herbarium material is at hand for study.
Having been assured on information believed trustworthy that the Schweinitzian herbarium confirmed the identity of the species before us, in the first edition of this work the form was listed as P.
Meantime in the herbarium referred to, at Philadelphia the original type of P.
Later, 1829, Schweinitz discovered in America a physarum-looking specimen which he took to be the same thing, and accordingly placed in hisherbarium under this name, and entered N.
I have also specimens from the herbarium of the lamented Dr.
In the herbarium a small bit of Anderson's material has rested long; but it must not be lost to sight.
But in the Linnaean herbarium preserved at London, teste Lister, the original type of Lycoperdon radiatum L.
Ellis sent a small bit to the Iowa herbariumwithout other comment, save that he thought it a physarum.
The cortex is not at all porose or spongy, in color reddish or brown, fragile indeed, but not to the touch, in the herbarium enduring for years.
The only specimens known are in theherbarium of Berkeley, now at Kew.
The only specimens in ourherbarium are from the Congo valley.
Specimens in the herbariumof the State University of Iowa are from Jalapa, Mexico, collected by Mr. C.
He remained in charge of the herbariumuntil his death, adding to it constantly, until it became one of the most complete in the world.
In 1864, he presented to Harvard his herbarium of more than two hundred thousand specimens, and his botanical library.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herbarium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arboretum; bed; border; garden; herbarium; paradise; shrubbery; vineyard
