The Economic Botanical Collection
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So I'm standing here with Chris Niezgoda who is the collections manager of flowering plants in botany and we're going on a tour of the economic botanical collection. - Economic botany is the use of plants by people. So whether they eat them, whether they use them medicinally, whether they make hats out of them. We have boxes, we have glass jars, we have liquids, so it's a challenge to store them and that's why a lot of museums and institutions don't. As you can see when we open these drawers, these are nice, new boxes, because for many years after they were off-exhibit they were just in bottoms of cases, exhibit cases or in closets. - Oh, wow. - Kodak boxes, old shoe boxes, which makes my heart stop because our aim is to preserve everything. ...
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So I'm standing here with Chris Niezgoda who is the collections manager of flowering plants in botany and we're going on a tour of the economic botanical collection. - Economic botany is the use of plants by people. So whether they eat them, whether they use them medicinally, whether they make hats out of them. We have boxes, we have glass jars, we have liquids, so it's a challenge to store them and that's why a lot of museums and institutions don't. As you can see when we open these drawers, these are nice, new boxes, because for many years after they were off-exhibit they were just in bottoms of cases, exhibit cases or in closets. - Oh, wow. - Kodak boxes, old shoe boxes, which makes my heart stop because our aim is to preserve everything. ...
