At RBGE we are digitising our herbarium collections and other interesting and useful material relating to herbarium specimens.
We are undertaking a long running project to database and digitise the 45 000 type specimens in the herbarium. This work is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is divided geographically into the African Plants Initiative (API), the Latin American Plants Initiative (LAPI) and the Global Types Initiative (GTI). The data and the images are available on Aluka, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to make scholarly articles from and about the developing world accesible in a digital library.
**We have recently passed the 10 000 specimen milestone.**
There are also two digitisation projects funded by the Sibbald Trust; the Afghan Expedition and the Stainton Slide Project.
You can search the RBGE virtual herbarium for specimens that have been digitised.