Professional paper
Herbarium collection of the Croatian Natural History Museum
Mirjana Vrbek
; Department of Botany, Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
150 years ago the National Museum in Zagreb had in its possession a herbarium collection of vascular plants that numbered some 6,000 specimens. It was made by the herbalists J. Host, I. Daubači and H. Klinggräff. The collection was subsequently augmented with herbarium material by two eminent Croatian botanists J. K. Schlosser Klekovski and Lj. Vukotinović. It was stored in the Museum until 1875, when it was donated to the Department of Botany and Physiology, University of Zagreb; here it became the foundation of the present-day herbarium of the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, the most comprehensive herbarium in Croatia.
From 1987 botanical material was again collected in the Croatian Natural History Museum (part of the former National Museum), and the herbarium collection and Botanical Department were established. Currently the collection comprises over 6,000 herbarium specimens of vascular plants collected mostly in Croatia. The entire collection is kept in a temporary storage space which is too small and situated in the attic. The specimens are kept in cardboard species covers, arranged in alphabetical order by genus and species and stored in wooden cupboards.
Keywords
Herbarium collection; Croatian Natural History Museum
Hrčak ID:
59085
URI
Publication date:
31.3.1999.
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