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Introduction.. 1. What is taxonomy?.. 2. The development, purpose and types of herbaria.. The Herbarium Building, Collections and Materials.. 3. The herbarium building and specimen storage.. 4. Pests and treatments.. 5. Materials.. 6. Label design and production.. Herbarium Techniques and Management.. 7. Centralized accessioning, recording and dispatch procedures.. 8. Processing unmounted specimens.. 9. Mounting herbarium specimens.. 10. Conservation of sheets.. 11. Plant names (nomenclature.. 12. The arrangement of herbarium collections.. 13. Ancillary collections.. 14. Collections of illustrations and photographs.. 15. Handling herbarium specimens.. 16. Incorporation (filing or laying-in of mounted specimens.. 17. Curation of special groups.. 18. Duplicate distribution.. 19. Loans to other institutions.. 20. Visitors.. 21. Removal of samples from herbarium material.. 22. Essential herbarium literature.. Additional Techniques.. 23. Rearrangement of herbarium collections according to new publications.. 24. The dissection of floral organs and preservation of the results.. 25. Illustration.. 26. The photographic copying of herbarium sheets.. 27. Collectors, itineraries, maps and gazetteers.. 28. Check-lists.. 29. Introduction to computers.. Collecting.. 30. Collecting and preserving specimens.. 31. Collecting materials for ancillary disciplines.. 32. The collection of pteridophytes.. 33. The collection and curation of bryophytes.. 34. The collection and curation of Algae.. 35. The collection and preservation of fungi (including lichens.. 36. The collection of living material.. 37. Collecting for a seed bank.. 38. Photography and fieldwork.. The Herbarium in a Wider Context.. 39. Economic botany and the herbarium.. 40. Ecology and the herbarium.. 41. Conservation and the herbarium.. 42. International legislation and the herbarium.. Additions, UP-Dates and Corrections.. References.. Index

The 3rd edition of this standard reference for all botanists, herbarium managers and technicians involved with the making and maintenance of herbarium collections. Inglés