An historic collection of more than 10,000 dried and pressed plant specimens, which dates back more than 200 years, is to be digitised and used to create a ‘time-capsule record of biodiversity in the UK’ to teach the ecology students of today and help the UK’s nature recovery.
Royal Agricultural University Associate Professor, Dr Kelly Hemmings, is leading the digitisation. ffinlo Costain asked her to tell me more about the project.