Dr Keyy Hemmings
Tuesday 24 June 2025
Kelly will introduce visitors to the Royal Agricultural University’s (RAU), unique herbarium, now housed in the laboratories where it is being digitally photographed, recorded, and catalogued by staff, students, and volunteers (with the help of funding from Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society and the University’s own Cirencester Fund). The historic collection of more than 10,000 dried and pressed plant specimens dates back more than 200 years. The original specimens and the digital archive provide a ‘time-capsule’ record of biodiversity in the UK, and will be used to teach the students of today and help the UK’s nature recovery.
Dr Kell Hemmings is Associate Professor in Ecology and Agroecosystems at RAU.
*meeting details TBA