**Code**: [HAMU](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126753) **Organization**: University of Newcastle upon Tyne **Division**: Hancock Museum **Location**: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 62160 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1829 **Taxonomic coverage**: 19th century vascular plants **Geographic coverage**: Britain, especially northern England; Europe, especially southern France **Incorporated herbaria**: TNFC, USH, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle upon Tyne. **Important collectors**: G. W. Temperley, G. S. Brady, O. Gilbert, J. Nowell, J. F. Bigge, M. J. F. Sidney, F. Raine, A. W. Bartlett, J. Adamson, T. Belt, J. B. Duncan, W. Mudd, A. G. Long, M. R. Dickinson, J. Thornhill, J. Boyd, B. King, T. Pigg, N. Temperley, M. Hancock, J. Storey, R. B. Bowman, J. Alder, W. Robertson, W. McLean-Brown, J. H. Balfour, E. M. Lobley, N. J. Winch, R. C. Embleton, R. B. Cooke, W. C. Trevelyan, W. Johnson **Notes**: Updated Nov 2017 (notes). Extensive fossil plant and archival collections. In 2003 HAMU was incorporated into the Hancock Museum herbarium which is housed at the Discovery Museum, in Newcastle. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-01-12 > [!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.