Botanical collections management

While at Bishop Museum, the Lāna‘i Interns learned the process of collections management in the Herbarium Pacificum. Beginning with tours of all of the Natural Sciences collections, the Interns learned how to process samples, from pressing to mounting to databasing the label information.

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Tour of the collection How to find a specimen Cutting tape to mount a secimen Gluing on a label Looking at a completed specimen Mounting the specimen

Databasing label information Gaining computing skills


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