Herbarium Archive · Plate IV
04
Specimens survive their collectors by seventy years
Share of mounted sheets remaining intact after fifty years, grouped by decade of field collection
Specimen survival rate by decade collected
Pre-war & wartime
Mid-century
Modern methods
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
34%
1930s
28%
1940s
61%
1950s
74%
1960s
87%
1970s
93%
1980s
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