Loose botanical specimen mounted within a manuscript volume
Item
- Title
- Loose botanical specimen mounted within a manuscript volume
- Description
- Loose-pressed plant specimen mounted directly onto a handwritten manuscript page from a bound volume. The specimen consists of two slender flowering stems affixed to the page, integrating botanical material with personal written notes. This item illustrates informal and field-based botanical collecting and documentation practices, where specimens were preserved alongside observational or diary-style records rather than on standard herbarium sheets.
- Subject
- Plant
- Type
- image
- specimen
- herbarium specimen
- Format
- jpg
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Mary Agard Pocock collections
- Location - Physical Location
- Selmar Schonland Herbarium
- Date Modified
- 2016-05-13
- Date
- 19uu
- Note
- The specimen is mounted on a page containing handwritten narrative text, suggesting a close relationship between botanical observation and personal or field documentation. Unlike formal herbarium sheets, this format provides valuable insight into historical methods of collecting, recording and preserving plant material in situ.
- Item sets
- Mary Pocock Plant Specimen Collection
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