Description
Containing around three-quarters of a million specimens, the botanical collection forms a physical record of where plants and fungi have been found. The Museum collection has grown from the mid-19th century onwards as people with a passion for the natural world have donated their personal collections. The backbone of the collection was created by merging three large private collections from James Cosmo Melvill (worldwide plants donated in 1904), Leopold Hartley Grindon (cultivated plants donated in 1910) and Charles Bailey (European plants donated in 1917). The most recent significant addition has been the collection of British brambles donated by Alan Newton in 2012.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 134,540 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Botany Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4f64e2fc-a84b-49f6-802f-e48f725717d7. Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by VertNet.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collection Information Manager
- Oxford Road
- 0161 235 8892
- Curator of Botany
- Oxford Road
- 0161 275 2671
- Curatorial Assistant (Botany)
- Oxford Road
- 0161 275 2672
Geographic Coverage
Global coverage with emphasis in worldwide plants donated in 1904, cultivated plants donated in 1910, European plants donated in 1917, and British brambles donated in 2012.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Plantae |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=manch_botany |
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