Imaging
A number of imaging projects have been, are and will be undertaken in order to make the material in the herbarium more easily accessible and usable for people worldwide and in partial fulfillment of the Herbarium’s commitment to the Convention in Biological diversity. Most of the funding for the current imaging work has been obtained via a series of grants from the Mellon Foundation. The grants have enabled the construction of an herbarium database - Penelope – which holds details of the materials imaged. The images and their metadata are being gradually mounted by the Mellon Foundation on the Jstor web site
These images are particularly important as they include images of specimens which are never sent on loan. Amongst these latter materials are Harvey’s Travelling Sets of Algae. A recent paper in Biology and Environment details the Australian elements of these collections and their taxonomic importance (see http://www.ria.ie/Publications/Journals/Biology-and-Environment/Buy-online.aspx).
Harvey's Travelling Sets of Algae originate from Ceylon, the Friendly Islands and Australia. There are seven books of specimens from Australia and one each from Ceylon and the Friendly Islands. Preliminary versions of the data on these materials are reproduced here (below): fully corrected accounts of the Australian collections are available from the web-site cited above.
- A searchable pdf table which details the collections in the Ceylonese book is available to download here.
- A searchable pdf table which details the collections in the Friendly Islands book is available to download here.
- A single searchable pdf table which details the collections in the seven Australian books is available to download here.
Please email comments and corrections to these tables to jparnell@tcd.ie with the Heading 'Travelling Sets'. Note that these Indices are copyright and should be cited as follows.
Parnell, J. (2005). Index to Harvey's 'Travelling Sets' of Australian Algae in the TCD Herbarium. Web-page of the Herbarium, Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Parnell, J. (2005). Index to Harvey's 'Travelling Sets' of Ceylonese Algae in the TCD Herbarium. Web-page of the Herbarium, Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Parnell, J. (2005). Index to Harvey's 'Travelling Sets' of Friendly Islands Algae in the TCD Herbarium. Web-page of the Herbarium, Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Some images of the African specimens are available for download via the ALUKA website.