Timber, Fruits and Seeds
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 80 boxes of timber, fruit and seed specimens, and also approximately 100 individual specimens. These date broadly from 1800 to the present. This collection comprises various dried objects of timber, plant fibre, dried leaf and root material, twigs, fruits and seeds. The largest collections are the carpological and morphological sets of the Strathclyde collection (GGO), which comprise 40 boxes of specimens. They represent a range of species, from the British and Irish Isles and overseas, and include conifer cones, spines, rhizomes, tendrils and timber. The collection also contains various teaching aids. The Glasgow Museums civic collection (GLAM) includes corn cobs, kapok, horned fruits (Trapa), cotton, double coconut, cocoa, various legumes (including sea beans) and other seeds. There is also a useful reference collection of about 60 British plant seeds mounted on to glass slides, donated by Professor T King in 1889. In addition, the collection contains small sets of microscopic histology slides. A set labelled the ‘Davidson collection’ comprises various grass, sedge and fungi sections, while a further set of 120 histology slides is of unknown origin.
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