English botanical artist, collector and photographer Anna Atkins was the first person to illustrate a book with photographic images. Her nineteenth-century cyanotypes used light exposure and a simple ...

In 1901, a petite, independent-minded woman arrived at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney to begin ... document and store Australian and exotic plant specimens. In 1895, a Flockton watercolour ...

Mass digitization lineage for plants and four scanners for type specimen digitization. The botanical library serves a reference library ... Digitisation, focus stacking photography, and structured ...

These internationally significant collections include 3,5 million specimens from around the globe, particularly from the Nordic countries, North America and the cool and temperate zones of Asia.

The Missouri Botanical Garden has launched an initiative to create a digital repository of the 6 million plant specimens stored in the herbarium there. Image courtesy of the Missouri Botanical ...