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    • Fern specimen (1769) dried, pressed, mounted and labelled.
    Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Published 24 September 2010 Size: 470 KB Referencing Hub media

    Banks and Solander collected numerous New Zealand plant specimens. Like the silver fern specimen seen here, these were dried, pressed, mounted and labelled.

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      Sir Joseph Banks

      Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) was a wealthy amateur botanist who joined James Cook on his voyage on the Endeavour to the South Pacific. This was Cook’s first voyage, leaving England in 1768 and ...

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      Back-of-House Botany Collection Tour

      Te Papa Botany Curator Leon Perrie will introduce the herbarium collection, showcase its highlights and discuss how it is used. See plants collected during Cook’s first Pacific voyage, engravings ...

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