<p>We dip back into the vault of the National Herbarium of Victoria in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens with manager of collections Alison Vaughan.</p><p>This time we go on a journey to the Northwest Passage of Arctic Canada via a small specimen of chickweed from the 1850s.</p>

We dip back into the vault of the National Herbarium of Victoria in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens with manager of collections Alison Vaughan. This time we go on a journey to the Northwest Passage of Arctic Canada via a small specimen of chickweed from the 1850s.

Secrets of the Herbarium: a journey to the Arctic

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