Great site.
Just a most minor point: when I was about to save the Home Page in my
Favourites it was named: "HerbWeb - Home page". It would have been good to
have "Kew" in there without having to enter that oneself.
Best wishes
Bente Loudon
>From: Bob Allkin <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museums Computer Group <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New botanical resource available online
>Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:00:17 +0100
>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>I would like to bring to your attention the recent release on the
>internet of Kew's central herbarium catalogue including images of
>many specimens.
>
>Please see: http://www.kew.org/herbcat
>
>The catalogue currently contains c 200,000 records of either dried
>herbarium specimens or of spirit collections held at Kew. More
>than 58,000 of these records relate to type specimens. We are
>embarking on an programme to incorporate data sets built over the
> last 10-20 years by previous projects at Kew and thus anticipate
>that the catalogue will grow significantly.
>
>More than 50,000 specimen images have been scanned digitally
>and the number available to view across the internet will also grow
>each day.
>
>We welcome your views on how this new tool might be improved to
> better meet your needs.
>
>thanks
>Bob Allkin
>Project Manager
>Dr. Bob Allkin
>Information Projects Manager
>RBG Kew
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Tel: +44 208 332 5717
>
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