#herbaria — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #herbaria, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/hu/99946/ Index – Belföld – Nem engedélyezett vegyszer miatt visszahívják a Herbária csipkebogyóhús több tételét #belföld #csipkebogyó #hatóanyag #herbária #HU #Hungarian #Hungary #hús #Magyar #Magyarország #növényvédőszer #termékvisszahívás
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Herbal (Botany 🌱)
A herbal is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them. A herbal may also classify the plants it describes, may give recipes for herbal extracts, tinctures, or potions, and sometimes include mineral and animal medicam...
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📢#OutNow in #OA: '#Decolonial #Ecologies: The Reinvention of #NaturalHistory in #LatinAmerican #Art', by Joanna Page.
In this book, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which #contemporary #artists in #LatinAmerica are reinventing #historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new #aesthetic and #political perspectives on the past and the present.
Page brings together an entirely new corpus of #artistic projects from #Argentina, #Brazil, #Chile, #Colombia, #Ecuador, #Mexico, and #Peru that engage critically and creatively with forms as diverse as the #medieval #bestiary, #baroque #cabinetsofcuriosities, atlases created by #European travellers to the #NewWorld, the #floras and #herbaria composed by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century #naturalists, and the #dioramas designed for #naturalhistory #museums.
Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339
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#Museum30 Day 26 - ‘Colleague'
Today, I'd like to use the occasion to give a shout out to all dear #curator colleagues in #museums and #herbaria who take care of the human heritage, discover new aspects, help to interpret it, make #exhibitions happen and share the cool things to know, often with little pay and much pressure. #museodon -
#Museum30 Day 20 - ‘Bookshelves'
While #herbaria are usually single sheets with pressed #plants nowadays, originally they were #books with pressed #flowers. The #NHMLondon has more than 1300 volumes of such books and collection sets. You can browse the complete dataset here: https://doi.org/10.5519/swp7oysfWe featured some amazing examples from this dataset in the latest NHM blog (published today!): https://naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2022/11/20/when-is-a-book-not-a-book-the-bound-volumes-and-exsiccatae-in-the-herbarium-at-the-natural-history-museum-curator-of-botany/
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It's November, which is the month of #Museum30.
Day 1 - #Museum.
I'm working in the #herbarium at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum in #London. The #NHMLondon was split off the #BritishMuseum in 1881, which itself was born out of Hans #Sloane's (1660-1753) collections of plants, animals, coins, manuscripts, books, antiquities etc.
The natural history collections have a long and complex history. Almost 2 years ago, I wrote a short piece on the history of the NHM #herbaria: https://issuu.com/thevasculum/docs/vasculum_16.1/s/11551043