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Data Rescue Intern: Philippa Stone Over the winter of 2025/2026, I completed the data rescue internship, “New Biodiversity Data using Old Fashioned Botanical Letters,” with Linda Jennings at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC. John W. Eastham (1878-1968), was one of the most prolific of the early plant collectors in British Columbia. Eastham donated his specimen collection to the herbarium at UBC after his retirement as British Columbia’s Plant Pathologist (1914 -1947). The herbarium also holds a collection of his letters that contain valuable information about herbarium specimens and the state of taxonomy at the time of their writing, but the letters are fragile and some are beginning to disintegrate.  A herbarium specimen of Vaccinium ovatum collected on Lasqueti Island by Eastham in 1939 (V016477) |
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