8-580: Fielding-Druce Herbarium , part of the Department of Biology, University of Oxford , located on South Parks Road, in Oxford, England. A herbarium is a collection of herbarium sheets, with a dried pressed specimen of the botanic species, whether they were bound into a book by one dedicated individual, or have been amassed into huge collections. They are like plant ID cards. As paper was expensive, multiple specimens are normally mounted on one sheet. The 2 cores of
16-484: Is particularly rich in specimens from Oxfordshire , Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. Other collections were added later. It was established in 1621, they include the oldest herbarium in the United Kingdom and the fourth oldest herbarium in the world. Collectively, they hold approximately 1,000,000 botanical specimens (including at least 35,000 types) from across all taxonomic groups and geographic regions. Four of
24-755: The Oxford City Council approved the £200m construction of the Life and Mind Building , which will be the university's largest building project and combine the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Biology . It will replace the Tinbergen Building on South Parks Road , which was closed and demolished when asbestos was discovered in 2017. The building will feature multiple laboratories, teaching and testing spaces providing research facilities for 800 students and 1200 researchers. Work
32-624: The Department of Plant Sciences in 2002, and research relating to forestry was undertaken under that name until 2022 when the department merged with the Department of Zoology to form the Department of Biology . Some students were Imperial Forest Service students, who came from many parts of the British Empire to qualify as foresters before they returned home. It ran a post graduate MSc forestry course for many years: Forestry and its Relation to Land Use , until 2002. In January 2021,
40-577: The Herbarium collection, are bequeathed to the University from Henry Fielding (1805-1851) containing a non-British and Irish collection. It also covers most taxonomic groups and geographical areas. It is particularly rich in nineteenth century material from the Americas and south and south east Asia. The other core a British and Irish collection from George Claridge Druce (1850-1932) in 1932, this
48-584: The collections contain 800,000 specimens and benefits from close links with the university's Oxford Botanic Garden . The herbaria are now housed under the title of Department of Biology . Forestry was an important part of the university under the name of the Imperial Forestry Institute , from 1924; later the Commonwealth Forestry Institute from 1939. The Oxford Forestry Institute was incorporated into
56-533: The more significant pre-19th century herbaria are those of Robert Morison, William Sherard, Johannus Dillenius and John Sibthorp. The earliest collected plant specimens dates back to around 1606. It includes collections from; See also List of herbaria in Europe Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford The Department of Plant Sciences , at the University of Oxford , England,
64-488: Was a former Oxford department that researched plant and fungal biology. It was part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division . From 1 August 2022 its functionality merged with the Department of Zoology to become the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford . The department housed the Oxford University Herbaria that consists of two herbaria: In total
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