[Nhcoll-l] Botanic Garden Meise (BR)

[Ann Bogaerts]

Dear Colleagues,

The management of the collections at the National Botanic Garden of 
Belgium was transferred from the Federal to Flemish Government 
on1January 2014. This has resulted in a number of changes, including the 
name of the institute that has officially become “Agentschap Plantentuin 
Meise” (Botanic Garden Meise).

The Flemish government is heavily investing in the renovation of our 
digitization infrastructure and in a large-scale digitization project 
where the African and Belgian vascular plant herbaria are to be scanned 
and databased. This 3 year project will run from 1 January 2015 to 31 
December 2017, and will have a great impact on the running of the 
vascular plant herbarium of the Botanical Garden (BR). We are 
unfortunately obliged to progressively restrict access to these 
collections. We have compiled the following (provisional) timetable:

*_Timetable 2015-2017:_*

Hall 1.1 (African Dicots: Acanthaceae to Leguminosae-Mimosaceae*): no 
access from 15 May 2015 to the end 2016.

Hall 1.2 (African Dicots: Leguminosae-Papilionaceae to end*): no access 
from September 2015 to Spring 2017.

Hall 2.2 (Belgian Herbarium): no access from November 2015 to end 2017.

Hall 2.1 (African Monocots) and Hall 0.1 (African Pteridophytes and 
Gymnosperms): no access from January 2016 to end 2017.

* Our collections are alphabetically classified and the Families 
arranged according to “The Plant Book, second edition (2000)” that 
largely follows Cronquist (1981).

Please take the above timetable into account when planning your visit to 
the herbarium, as well as contacting the curator at 
vasc.curator at br.fgov.be <mailto:vasc.curator at br.fgov.be>well in advance. 
In so doing, the curator can give you more detailed information 
concerning the availability of the desired collections.

Loans during the above periods will be limited.

We hope that you will take the above measures into consideration. We 
would like to thank you for your understanding, and apologise for any 
inconvenience caused by these measures. If you have any questions, 
please contact us via the above email or directly through one of the 
curators.

Piet Stoffelen, Ann Bogaerts & Sofie De Smedt

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Ann Bogaerts

Curator Cryptogamic Herbarium

Botanic Garden Meise
Nieuwelaan 38
BE-1860 Meise
Belgium
Phone: +32(0)2 260 09 35
Fax: +32 (0)2 260 09 45
www.botanicgarden.be

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