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Contents OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 3A Business Plan specific outcomes (and associated Corporate Plan actions) Progress against specific outcomes and actions Action 40 cont Fifty-one researchers, including three from international institutions, visited the Collections on 157 occasions. Curation staff serviced 24 requests for digital images of 82 herbarium specimens and 25 requests for destructive sampling of 612 specimens, predominately for DNA analysis.. Databasing of herbarium specimens has facilitated electronic accessibility to the information associated with each specimen. Forty-two requests for electronic data were serviced and 26 plant distribution maps were generated for scientific publications, conference presentations and to support submissions for grant funding. Curation staff conducted ten Herbarium tours and presentations for a range of interest groups, tertiary students, and the wider public to highlight the importance of herbarium specimens to scientific research. Tour groups included Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Director’s Circle, conservators of cultural materials and the Victorian College of Pharmacy Foundation. Curation staff also featured in two radio interviews focussing on the collections. The Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria secured funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to capture images of Australian vascular Type specimens. A pilot project will commence at the Herbarium in July 2011. page 102
Contents OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 3A Key Performance Measures: Strategic Priority 3B Specific Outcome Measure Result 58a (Plant specimens mounted) Number of specimens mounted from the State Botanical Collection (measured against previous years) 5,843 Foreign vascular specimens and 5,721 Australian vascular specimens were mounted in 2010–11 compared with 11,564 Foreign and Australian specimens mounted in 2009–10. 58b (Pest management) Outbreaks of pest insects detected and acted upon to minimise degradation of specimens Monitoring for pest insects continued. Outbreaks of cigarette beetles (Lasioderma serricorne) in late 2010 were dealt with promptly. An external consultant was engaged to provide advice on the recent cigarette beetle outbreaks and to provide an assessment of the current Integrated Pest Management program. Recommendations provided by the consultant were implemented. 59 (Foreign Fabaceae specimens) Specified targets met and project delivered on time Progress reports delivered to sponsors on time The foreign Fabaceae project met specified project milestones and was delivered on time, concluding in February 2011. During the project, 8,758 specimens were databased. Reporting obligations to project sponsors, the CASS Foundation, were met and funding instalments delivered. 60 (Philanthropic support for State Botanical Collection) Generated new funding or commitments for $50,000 Built donor relationships with the potential for further grants for this work A $10,000 grant was secured from the Norman Wettenhall Foundation for the preservation of burnt specimen notes from the Characeae collection. Due to other corporate priorities, resources were not directed towards securing additional grants. Royal Botanic Gardens Board Victoria Annual Report 2010–11 page 103
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