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A herbarium (plural "herbaria") is a collection of preserved plant specimens. These specimens may be whole plants or plant parts: these will usually be in a dried form, mounted on a sheet, but depending upon the material may also be kept in alcohol or other preservative.
In botany, a virtual herbarium is a herbarium in a digitized form. That is, it concerns a collection of digital images of preserved plants or plant parts. Virtual herbaria often are established to improve availability of specimens to a wider audience.
The Index Herbariorum provides a global directory of herbaria (singular, herbarium; plural, herbaria) and their associated staff. This searchable online index allows scientists rapid access to data related to 3,400 locations where a total of 350 million botanical specimens are permanently housed. The Index Herbariorum has its own staff and website.
Institute for Oriental Culture was established in Tokyo [2] and Kyoto in 1929. The establishment was one of the governmental cultural projects [ 3 ] undertaken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . The building is the current main building, which was completed in November 1930.
The following is a list of herbaria in Turkey.Herbaria are established within faculties and institutes of credible universities. Those created in departments that are concerned with natural sciences such as botany, ecology, biogeography and climatology are mostly used to do research on the genetics of the plants, to examine their distribution on specific geographical locations and to protect ...
Kyoto: Shinju-an : 2 items: Joseon Diplomatic Documents 朝鮮国書 Chōsen tsūshinshi kankei shiryō: 1607-17: Kyoto: Kyoto University (kept at The Kyoto University Museum (京都大学総合博物館)) 3 items
The Kyoto University Museum (京都大学総合博物館, Kyōto Daigaku Sōgō Hakubutsukan) opened in Kyōto, Japan, in 2001.It exhibits materials from the collection of some 2,600,000 objects built up by Kyoto University since its foundation as Kyoto Imperial University in 1897.
The oldest extant collection was established in 1823 at the University of Leningrad, and by the middle of the century they had been established in many European countries. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Australia now houses 12 xylaria holding 11% of the world's wood specimens, [ 4 ] while the Oxford Forestry Institute's xylarium holds about 13%.