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RECENT WORK ON THE HERBARIUM OF JOHN FORBES ROYLE (1799‐1858) AT MERSEYSIDE COUNTY MUSEUM (LIV.)
Author(s) -
Harrison Stephen
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1220474
Subject(s) - herbarium , geography , work (physics) , archaeology , biology , botany , engineering , mechanical engineering
Summary The personal herbarium of John Forbes Royle, who collected plants in the Himalayas, was rediscovered in 1952 as part of a donation to the City of Liverpool Museums. Recent work on the herbarium has shown that these specimens were examined by some of the leading botanists of Royle's period, and that they found new species in the collection, many of which were described and published. This paper reports this recent work and includes a revised list of Type Specimens contained in the herbarium.