University of Reading Herbarium
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The University of Reading Herbarium, acronym RNG, is a herbarium
on the University of Reading
's Whiteknights Campus
. Along with the Cole Museum it forms part of the University's School of Biological Sciences, and is principally used for teaching and research purposes. The herbarium has over 300000 specimens from around the world but has it's most extensive collections from the Euromediterranean area supplemented with special collections from the Falkland Island and southern South America. The herbarium provides a research resource for some 50 staff and 500 students in Biological Sciences as well as providing material via loans to other registered herbaria.
Reading University Herbarium (RNG) was formed from the herbaria of the departments of Botany and Agricultural Botany at the University and was founded in the early 1900s.
Herbarium
In botany, a herbarium – sometimes known by the Anglicized term herbar – is a collection of preserved plant specimens. These specimens may be whole plants or plant parts: these will usually be in a dried form, mounted on a sheet, but depending upon the material may also be kept in...
on the University of Reading
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...
's Whiteknights Campus
Whiteknights Park
Whiteknights Park, or the Whiteknights Campus of the University of Reading, is the principal campus of that university. The park covers the area of the manor of Earley Whiteknights, also known as Earley St Nicholas and Earley Regis.Whiteknights Park is some two miles south of the centre of the town...
. Along with the Cole Museum it forms part of the University's School of Biological Sciences, and is principally used for teaching and research purposes. The herbarium has over 300000 specimens from around the world but has it's most extensive collections from the Euromediterranean area supplemented with special collections from the Falkland Island and southern South America. The herbarium provides a research resource for some 50 staff and 500 students in Biological Sciences as well as providing material via loans to other registered herbaria.
Reading University Herbarium (RNG) was formed from the herbaria of the departments of Botany and Agricultural Botany at the University and was founded in the early 1900s.