Nyewood Herbarium · Digitised Collections
Three hundred and forty sheets pressed between 1887 and 1912 by the Nyewood field party, rebound in 1964 and photographed at 600 dpi in the winter of last year. Each sheet is presented as mounted: specimen, tape, annotation slip, and label block in their original arrangement.
| Accession | Taxon | Collector | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYW 0014 A | Achillea borealis | H. Mowbray 412 | 11 Jul 1893 | Isotype |
| NYW 0014 B | Dryas octopetala | H. Mowbray 418 | 14 Jul 1893 | Mounted |
| NYW 0014 C | Salix herbacea | A. Fensham 09 | 02 Aug 1901 | On loan |
| NYW 0014 D | Saxifraga oppositifolia | A. Fensham 27 | 02 Aug 1901 | Unmounted |
| NYW 0014 E | Carex bigelowii | E. Sarran 3 | 19 Jun 1964 | Mounted |
Half the folder was remounted in 1964 with a cellulose tape that has since yellowed and shrunk. We leave it in place: removal risks more of the specimen than the discolouration takes.
Fourteen specimens in this folder were pressed between the pages of a farming almanac. Faint print offsets remain on the reverse, dating each press to within a week.
Each sheet is photographed twice — flat for the record, and at eight degrees to raise the tape ridges, foxing, and the impression of the original press boards.
Sheets travel in their folders only. Readers work with weighted snakes, never gloves; cotton catches on the fragmenting stems more readily than a clean dry hand.