JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Taxon. Summary A selective, yet comprehensive bibliography of plant collecting techniques, preservation methods, herbarium procedures and practices, administrative problems, and the herbarium's role as a repository of preserved specimens. Herbaria, once called dry gardens, are collections of preserved plant specimens organized in one of several acceptable classification systems. The founding of herbaria probably dates to the earliest botanical gardens of Europe in the 16th century (Medellin-Leal, 1975, Steam, 1971, Sheltler, 1969). Collection sizes today range from approximately 4 million at Paris, Kew, Leningrad, Geneve and Washington, D.C., to a few hundred or thousand specimens under private ownership in many parts of the world (Holmgren and Keuken, 1974, Shetler, loc. cit.). With rapid growth in institutional and non-institutional collections and large requests for collection and other botanical information by scientists and students, the practice of herbarium keeping became important.Information about many herbarium techniques, some new and others refined for collecting and mounting, registering and cataloging, and general care, is available only in diverse and obscure literature sources making their discovery difficult. Knowledge of basic techniques in both mega-and micro-herbaria is increasingly needed to assist in managing more efficiently the system of systematic botany resources in the world. The bibliography here is intended to give aid to this endeavor. This paper provides a comprehensive, yet not exhaustive, bibliography of plant collecting techniques, preservation methods, herbarium procedures and practices, administrative problems, and the herbarium's role as a repository of preserved specimens. Management of specimens from field collection through registration and storage and later recall for circulation in the form
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