[PCA] ARTICLE: Archive for the plants: Lynchburg College herbarium's data on specimens now available online

[De Angelis, Patricia]

BY JOSH MOODY
August 9, 2017

>From organic to online, decades of plant life specimens in the Lynchburg
College Ramsey-Freer Herbarium have been preserved digitally and uploaded
to search portals on scientific websites.

The digitization process, which took place during the past year, was made
possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation that provided
equipment and funds to log Virginia plant specimens in the Ramsey-Freer
Herbarium. Founded in 1927, the herbarium, now located in the Claytor
Nature Study Center in Bed ford County, holds more than 60,000 specimens.

"We're the largest herbarium collection [in Virginia] affiliated with a
private college," said Nancy Cowden, LC biology professor and curator of
the Ramsey-Freer Herbarium.

Full story @:
http://www.newsadvance.com/townnews/botany/archive-for-the-plants/article_68889f0b-a500-5cf4-b573-af43360bfa08.html
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