**Code**: [GL](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126663) **Organization**: Culture and Sport Glasgow **Division**: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre **Department**: Natural History Department **Location**: Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 68287 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1780 **Taxonomic coverage**: Bryophytes; fungi; lichens; algae; vascular plants **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide; British, especially Glasgow and Scotland **Incorporated herbaria**: GLG, GOW. **Important collectors**: G. A. W. Arnott, D. Lillie, J. Drummond, A. C. Crundwell, W. Wilson, E. Fries, A. M. F. J. Palisot de Beauvois **Notes**: Non-British vascular plants have been on permanent loan to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E) since the 1970s. More recently (2007) the non-British algae, bryophytes, lichens were also transferred to E. The British material, all groups, was transferred to Glasgow Museums (GLAM) at the same time. \*\*\*NB Correspondence regarding non-British material should be directed to the RBGE (E)\*\*\* Information on the British material can be founds at: http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=533630;type=801 Reference: Patton, D (1954). The British Herbarium of the Botanical Department of Glasgow University. Glasgow Naturalist Vol 17 Part 3, 105 **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2022-01-10 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.