Last Wednesday, the Field Book Project received Dr. Eric Elton and 11 of his 9th-12th grade ecology students from The Bryn Mawr School (Baltimore, MD). Dr. Elton and his students were given a tour of U.S. National Herbarium specimens and field books in the Department of Botany. Deborah Bell, Collections Management in the Department of Botany, displayed samples of herbarium specimens, disucussing the history, depth, and breath of the collection. Later students were taken to explore a variety of field books of botanists from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Monday, 16 July 2012
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The Field Book Project is a joint initiative of the Smithsonian Institution Archives and National Museum of Natural History with the goal of creating a Field Book Registry, one online location for field book content.
The Field Book Project is a joint initiative of the Smithsonian Institution Archives and National Museum of Natural History with the goal of creating a Field Book Registry, one online location for field book content.
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Thank you, Martin! We hope these students benefited from this tour.
Posted by: Admin | Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 04:00 PM
It's great that students are given the chance to visit Herbarium and and see everything with their own eyes..
Posted by: Martin Lee | Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 07:22 AM