The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...

At the tender age of 16 he listed the plants of Ganthorpe and by 19 had written a 'Flora of the Malton District'. He became interested in bryophytes - mosses and liverworts - and was an acknowledged ...