Manchester Museum MANCH

The Manchester Museum holds around 14,000 herbarium sheets of seaweeds and a further 25 books of exsiccatae. It is a historic collection with the majority of the specimens dating from the between 1860s to the 1920s. The collection includes material from the herbaria of James C. Melvill, Samuel O. Gray, Caroline Birley, Thomas Hick, Dr. Gotlieb L. Rabenhorst and Prof. Walter Migula. Other notable collectors include Kathleen Drew-Baker, Eyre de Crespigny and Mary Wyatt.