**Code**: [LIV](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125168) **Organization**: World Museum, National Museums Liverpool **Location**: Liverpool, England, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 400000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1802 **Taxonomic coverage**: Angiosperms; <Hieracium>; aliens and adventives; pteridophytes; marine algae, especially of Irish Sea; British diatoms; bryophytes; fungi; economic botany collection of commercial plant products, especially timbers; ethnobotanical collections **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, especially of Europe, India, and North America; British Isles, especially northwestern England; mainly British and Old World tropics; **Incorporated herbaria**: BCKN, CHELB in 1963, CHT in 1963, EXR (25 000 specimens) in 1993, LIVC in 1909, LIVNFC, LIVU (130 000 specimens), LPL, LRL, PTN, TOD, BM timber collections, Liverpool Chemists Association, economic botany collections of Liverpool Commodity Trades Association and Liverpool Salvage Corps, pharmaco-botany collections of Liverpool John Moores University, slide collections of diatoms from Liverpool Microscopical Society, fluid-preserved marine algal collections from Marine Biological Station, Port Erin, Isle of Man., CRBY (2013), SPTS (2013), SPT (2013) **Important collectors**: J. Banks, A. Bivona-Bernardi, F. Boott, J. Boswarva, W. Boult, J. E. Bowman, J. Bradbury, R. Brown, F. Buchanan-Hamilton, A. Dallman, E. Davall, J. Dickinson, J. Dickson, J. W. Ellis, P. Forsskål, J. G. A. Forster, J. R. Forster, J. Harriman, T. von Heldreich, B. Heyne, V. H. Heywood, W. J. Hooker, F. J. Hutchison, N. J. Jacquin, J. G. Klein, J. G. König, E. F. Linton, W. R. Linton, F. P. Marrat, F. Masson, H. McAllister, A. Menzies, I. B. Molineri, G. H. E. Muhlenberg, T. Nuttall, T. Palgrave, P. S. Pallas, F. T. Pursh, T. W. Naylor-Beckett, J. Ralfs, A. E. Ratcliffe, W. Roscoe, J. P. Rottler, W. Roxburgh, J. F. Royle, G. Russell, W. P. Schimper, J. C. Schleicher, M.R.D. Seaward, J. Shepherd, J. Shillito, F. W. Sieber, J. E. Smith, R. Spruce, J. E. Stocks, W. S. Sullivant, W. Swainson, O. P. Swartz, C. P. Thunberg, W. G. Travis, T. Velley, D. Villars, N. Wallich, J. R. Wellsted, J. White **Notes**: Updated Jun 2014 (istaff update). Liverpool Museum formerly known as Merseyside County Museums (1974-1986). World Museum Liverpool formerly known as Liverpool Museum (1987-2005). Part of National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside; administered by Board of Trustees. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2020-08-28 > [!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.