Welcome to CanWest's Botany Page.
Here you will find links to all of your favourite botanical pages – and
perhaps a few new ones. If you know of any pages not listed here that
should be, or find any errors, or would just like to yell at the author,
please
send some mail!
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- The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew,
Surrey, England. Lots of links here to other pages – some of which
are plagerized here.
- The Arnold Arboretum is a
collection of hardy trees, shrubs, and vines located on 265 acres in
Boston, Massachusetts. The grounds were planned and designed by the
Arboretum's first director, Charles Sprague Sargent, in collaboration
with the landscape architect, Fredrick Law Olmstead. Begin in 1872 and
named for its benefactor James Arnold, the Arboretum continues to
collect woody plants from around the world and offer
horticultural education in accordance with its mission.
- The British Natural History
Museum is dedicated to furthering the understanding of the natural
world through its unrivaled collections, its world class exhibitions and
education, and through its internationally significant programme of
scientific research.
- International
Organization of Palaeobotany home page.
- The Internet
Directory of Botany is an index to botanical information available on
the Internet.
- A. E. Roland
Herbarium, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Canada. The A. E. Roland
Herbarium is located in the Department of Biology, N.S.A.C. and houses a
number of specialized collections totaling approximately 13,00
specimens. The continuing mandate of the A. E. Roland Herbarium is to
collect, document, and preserve a floristic record of Nova Scotia and to
conduct research on native plant species.
- Canadian
Center for Biodiversity, Canadian Museum of Nature.
- G. F. Ledingham
Herbarium at the University of Regina, Canada. Dr. G. F. Ledingham
established the Herbarium in 1945. Since then, he has devoted a good
portion of his lifetime in expanding the collections of the Herbarium,
both while he was a full-time faculty member and during his nearly
twenty years of retirement. The Herbarium has over 50,000 vascular plant
specimens, 10,000 bryophyte specimens, and 10,000 specimens of
lichens.
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Botany Department, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. The ROM Botany
Department houses three principal collections. In addition to the
Vascular Plant Herbarium, Botany also houses a collection of Quaternary
sediment cores, macro- and microfossils, and modern reference material
(pollen, seeds, etc.). The department is also responsible for the ROM
Cryptogamic Herbarium (TRTC).
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Vascular Plant Herbarium (TRT), Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. TRT is
a collection of over 260,000 specimens and associated photographic and
other material that primarily documents the flora of Ontario.
- Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,
Scotland. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was founded in the 17th
century on an area the size of a tennis court. It now extends to 31
hectares (at Inverleith in Edinburgh), incorporates Specialist Gardens
at three very different locations in Scotland (Younger, Logan and
Dawyck; 50ha, 12ha and 25ha), and is one of the world's finest botanic
gardens.
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The Herbarium of the Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University,
UK. The University Herbarium, begun in 1761, consists of about 0.5
million, pressed, dried, mounted, and named specimens arranged in
systematic order. Although not as large as the national collections at
Kew and the British Museum (Natural History), the Cambridge Herbarium is
internationally famous for its historic collections. It contains, for
example, the plant specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the voyage
of the 'Beagle', and the John Lindley collection assembled in the
nineteenth century while he was Secretary of the Royal Horticultural
Society.
- British
Antarctic Survey Herbarium (AAS), Cambridge, UK. The British
Antarctic Survey Herbarium (international code AAS) contains a large
collection of plant specimens (over 38, 000) from Antarctica, the
sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents (especially Fuegia and
Patagonia). Over 2000 taxa are represented, comprising predominantly
bryophytes and lichens with smaller collections of vascular plants,
macro-algae and macro-fungi.
- Natural History
Museum, Berne, Switzerland (NMBE).
-
Botanical Electronic News (Gopher) by Dr. Adolf Ceska. Also
archived at:
The University of
Oklahoma, USA.
- The American Fern
Society is over 100 years old and with over 500 members worldwide
it is one of the largest International fern clubs in the world. It was
established in 1893 with the objective of fostering interest in ferns
and fern allies.
Canadian Federal:
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Electronic Information Service.
- AgriWeb is a
directory of Canadian Agricultural and Agri-Food resources on the
Internet.
- EMAN -
Ecological Monitory and Assessment Network. Also hosted here is:
Botanical Specialists and Literature, a searchable list of names and
publications of Canadian botanists.
- Department of Fisheries
and Oceans.
- Environment Canada
- National Research Council,
Canada
- Natural Resources Canada
- National Sciences and Engineering
Research Council NSERC.
Provincial:
Alberta:
- Alberta Research Council
- University of
Alberta
British Columbia
- British Columbia Government
- Tree
Physiology An International Botanical Journal (ISSN 0829-318X).
- Royal
Roads University Hatley Park The Public Gardens of Royal Roads
University
- University of British Columbia
Manitoba:
- Brandon University
- University of Manitoba
Nova Scotia:
- Dalhousie University:
- Nova Scotia Agricultural College
- Saint Francis Xavier University:
Ontario:
- Brock University:
Dept. of Biological Sciences
- Carleton University:
Conservation Ecology
Knut's Pages
(Forestry)
- Lakehead University:
Department of Biology
– Plant Cell Biology
- McMaster University:
- University of Guelph:
- University of Ottawa:
- University of Toronto
- University of Waterloo:
Quebec:
Saskatchewan: