<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The herbarium of Gyula Erazmus Nyárády has been assessed to contain around 90.000 sheets. During the past thirty years, the legacy of the famed botanist still found in public institutions and private collection across Romania and Hungary has been studied and processed by Kálmán Váczy, Sándor Bartha and especially Katalin Bartók. However, nothing is known about the sheets that had ended up outside Hungary or Romania. This study proposes to fill this gap to some extent: firstly, it draws attention to sheets from Nyárády’s herbarium found in the inventory of the world’s biggest botanical gardens, museums and universities of natural science; secondly, it goes into details about the circumstances of collecting the prepared taxa, and the conclusions that can be drawn from this; it presents the reasons why some sheets got abroad; and it adds more data to reconstruct Nyárády’s social network. It also indicates that the heritage, now known to consist of around 90.000 sheets, can be completed with the sheets found abroad.</p></abstract>

The herbarium of Gyula Erazmus Nyárády has been assessed to contain around 90.000 sheets. During the past thirty years, the legacy of the famed botanist still found in public institutions and private collection across Romania and Hungary has been studied and processed by Kálmán Váczy, Sándor Bartha and especially Katalin Bartók. However, nothing is known about the sheets that had ended up outside Hungary or Romania. This study proposes to fill this gap to some extent: firstly, it draws attention to sheets from Nyárády’s herbarium found in the inventory of the world’s biggest botanical gardens, museums and universities of natural science; secondly, it goes into details about the circumstances of collecting the prepared taxa, and the conclusions that can be drawn from this; it presents the reasons why some sheets got abroad; and it adds more data to reconstruct Nyárády’s social network. It also indicates that the heritage, now known to consist of around 90.000 sheets, can be completed with the sheets found abroad.

The Herbarium Files of Gyula Erazmus Nyárády which Got Abroad

Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Acta Biologica Marisiensis

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The herbarium of Gyula Erazmus Nyárády has been assessed to contain around 90.000 sheets. During the past thirty years, the legacy of the famed botanist still...

The Herbarium Files of Gyula Erazmus Nyárády which Got Abroad

Published Online: Jun 08, 2020

Page range: 35 - 41

Received: Dec 04, 2018

Accepted: Dec 14, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abmj-2018-0011

Keywords
herbarium, Gyula Erazmus Nyárády, public institutions, inventory, international and local collections, history of botany

© 2018 Zsolt Nagy, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Herbarium Files of Gyula Erazmus Nyárády which Got Abroad

Published Online: Jun 08, 2020

Page range: 35 - 41

Received: Dec 04, 2018

Accepted: Dec 14, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abmj-2018-0011

Keywordsherbarium, Gyula Erazmus Nyárády, public institutions, inventory, international and local collections, history of botany

© 2018 Zsolt Nagy, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
herbarium, Gyula Erazmus Nyárády, public institutions, inventory, international and local collections, history of botany