Collections management and curation
Microscope slides of algae in the Schmitz collection
The Natural History Museum’s algal herbaria contain specimens from a diverse group of unrelated organisms.
Algal specimens are preserved in a range of different ways:
- as pressed plants mounted on herbarium sheets
- as microscope slides
- in liquid
- as boxed specimens
There is a major international project to database and image type specimens, and as part of this initiative our algal type specimens are being databased and scanned. These digital images will be available online.