[Taxacom] suspension of loans and imaging service at NHM

[Peter Stafford]

Dear all,

 

Can I please draw your attention to the following:

 

Loan and imaging requests from the Dept. of Botany, Natural History
Museum (London)

The Department of Botany at the NHM is currently preparing to relocate
all of its flowering plant collections to a new building. This is
expected to take several months and cause inevitable disruption to
services. We therefore advise that from 1st June 2008 until December
2009 we will regrettably be unable to honour loan or imaging requests
for flowering plant specimens (those for ferns, bryophytes, diatoms and
lichens remain unaffected). If these restrictions are likely to cause
you particular problems we may be able to offer a limited service for
small, very urgent loans or images; our ability to help with such
requests, however, will be very much dependent on circumstances at the
time. Until November 2008 the flowering plant herbaria will remain open
to visitors; if you wish to visit, please therefore feel free to contact
us and arrange an appointment in the usual way. We apologise for any
inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

 

Dr Peter Stafford,

Curation Division (Flowering Plants)

c/o Department of Botany,

The Natural History Museum,

Cromwell Road,

London SW7 5BD,

U.K.

 

Tel: +44 ()207 942 5092

E-mail: P.Stafford at nhm.ac.uk