Welcome to the website for Biocultural Collections (BC), formally the Collections of Ethno- and Economic Botany (CEEB). We hope you will find our recent changes informative and useful. Please take the time to explore what we are putting together and feel free to contact us with any questions.
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Upcoming Event:
5:30-7:30 pm Thursday the 24th of May 2012 at Salle des Actes in
the Botanic Institute Montpellier,
France (Adjacent to Botanical
Garden)
The 10th Annual Meeting of Biocultural
Collections will be held at the Botanic Institute of Montpellier and is open to
all Ethnobiologists. There will be a
short introduction to the organization and a review of activities over the last
year: both Missouri Botanical Garden and Kew
have hosted international meetings to establish networks, curation standards
and databases for Biocultural Collections.
These presentations will be followed by discussions of our next steps
and priorities. Bring your issues with
and suggestions for biocultural collections, curation standards and databases. The Botanic Institute (http://www.aluka.org/page/about/partners/france_mpu.jsp
with 4,000,000 specimens) will display some of their historic collections and
we will visit the Montpellier Botanical Garden’s many biocultural plantings,
some of the oldest in Europe
(photo above and http://www.ot-montpellier.fr/en/the-botanical-garden). First created by order of Henri IV in 1593 for Pierre Richer de Belleval (1564-
1632), Montpellier Botanical Garden is now the property of the University of
Montpellier I and is classified as a Historical Monument and Protected Site.
Previous Events:
“Biocultural Collections: Establishing Curation Standards,” a workshop funded by the National Science Foundation, Biological Research Collections (Award # 1118808) presented at Botany 2011 in St. Louis, MO