**Code**: [STS](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126083) **Organization**: Stromness Museum **Division**: Orkney Natural History Society **Location**: Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 2000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1837 **Geographic coverage**: Scotland **Important collectors**: M. Spence **Notes**: Updated Jan 2018 (Correspondent, Notes update). Please direct all curatorial enquiries to [email protected]. Details of Magnus Spence's Herbarium are now online: http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/STROMNESSMUSEUM/library.asp A summary following a recent cataloguing exercise (which produced the herbarium list accessible at the above link) is: Magnus Spence (1853-1919) assembled his herbarium collection in the late Nineteenth and very early Twentieth Centuries. The number of specimens in the herbarium is 918, comprising 556 species of vascular plants, seven algae and five bryophytes. The original total certainly included two further species of vascular plant, each represented by a single specimen. **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.