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Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, Europe

Herbarium

Museum or Collection Type:
Natural History & Natural Science
Institutional Type:
Special Type: Herbarium
Subject: 
Biology, Botany, Natural History, Natural Sciences

Address:
P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Opening Hours:
Herbarium:
Week days: 7.45 - 18.45
Closed:
8 February from 12.30 hrs
3 October
From Christmas eve until the first working day of the new year.

Contact:
Phone: +31 71 5273500
Fax: +31 71 5273511

Additional information:
Visitors' address: Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC Leiden.

Links:
Herbarium
Leiden University

Description:
3,750,000 specimens - herbaria, ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, economic botany, seeds, wet preparations, timber, slides, books and reference material and 17-18th century herbaria and other material.

The Leiden Herbarium is part of the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland (http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/).

Further Reading:
Land, J. van der (ed.) 2001. The history of natural history in Leiden. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Leiden.

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland sine anno. Progress report 2001. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden.

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland sine anno. Progress report 2000. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden.

Kalkman, C. & P. Smit (eds.). 1979. Rijksherbarium 1829-1979. [Jubilee volume of Blumea 25 (1)], The Rijksherbarium, Leiden.

See more publications at: http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/pubs/index.htm#whatsnew




 




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