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The Symbiosis Book goes digital!
Many thanks to the staff and students at the herbarium, who helped to digitise The Symbiosis Book last week. The book was part of the Symbiosis Project, and is made of 15 large sheets of cotton paper,...
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Chelsea 2014
One of the annual opportunities I have as a member of the RHS Science Committee is to visit Chelsea Flower Show. Today was one of the hottest and sunniest Chelsea shows I have enjoyed for several...
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Ship of the desert docks at RNG
One of the roles of the University of Reading Herbarium (RNG) is to support the activitites of research students, by providing material, which may be sampled under supervision. While Sue Mott (RNG...
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Cyclamen at UKCPS Exhibition
One of my drawings based on a Cyclamen from the Herbarium is currently on display and for sale at the UKCPS Exhibition, at the Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick, from now through to the first week in...
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A long hot summer of sci-art…
After a long and exciting summer of sci-art, I’ve been pleased to get back to the Herbarium as a visiting artist, and round off the season with a visit from another lichen-loving artist, Louisa...
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SciArt in practice: experimenting with new materials
This is part of series of blog posts about my work on a science-themed art commission with UoR’s EM Lab. The artwork was inspired by SEM images of tree fern spores. The first two blog posts in this...
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Science Slam 2015
Saturday sees the second annual Science Slam taking place at South Street Theatre in Reading. The event, adapted from Poetry Slams, and adopted in the UK after great success in Germany and Scandinavia,...
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Colour with Clusius
Here are seven illustrated pages from Rariorum plantarum historia by Carolus Clusius published in 1601, the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Please colour them in and #Tweet to @RNGherb for...
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The Reading University Museums and Collections are running the 52Museums account on Instagram this week. We are theming entries around the alphabet and will be showcasing artefacts from A to Z. The...
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Advent Botany 2016 – Day 8: Getting stuffed at Christmas: Sage
By Rachel Webster Common sage specimen, seeds and illustration on a 19th century herbarium sheet from Leo Grindon’s cultivated plant collection There are many more gastronomically interesting options...
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