170 Collections of the Faculty of Biology Botanical Collection including Herbaria The Herbarium Dresdense (international abbreviation DR) comprises some 500,000 samples of plants, lichens and fungi from all systematic groups and from every continent on earth, although its main focus is on Europe. The Collection consists of the Herbarium Generale with seed plant samples of global origin, the Herbarium Saxonicum, which houses plants from Saxony and adjacent areas, the Cryptogam Herbarium with algae, fungi, lichens and bryophytes, and Oscar Drude’s Formation Herbarium. In addition, the Herbarium houses timber cross-sections, seeds, fruits and pollen preparations. A locality index of Saxon plants is also part of the Collection. In 1918, Theodor Wolf’s extensive Potentilla Herbarium (the basis for his monograph on the genus Potentilla) was acquired. Institute of Botany Seminar building 2, Zellescher Weg 22 Dr. Frank Müller, Tel.: +49 351-463 330 12 Frank.Mueller@tu-dresden.de https://tu-dresden.de/mn/biologie/botanik/botanik/herbarium Visits upon request Paleobotanical Collection This Collection of approximately 800 specimens of plant fossils was assembled over many years by palaeobotanist Harald Walther, for use in his lectures. In addition to specimens collected by him, especially from the lignite opencast mining areas in eastern Germany and Bohemia, donations from colleagues and private collectors have contributed to a virtually complete documentation − based on selected pieces − of the evolution of these plants. Institute of Botany Zellescher Weg 20 b Prof. Dr. Christoph Neinhuis, Tel.: +49 351-463 360 32 i.botanik@tu-dresden.de Zoological Teaching Collection This Collection is primarily used for practical training in biology and biotechnology, but is also employed in the teaching of medics and landscape architects. It includes skeletons, wet and dry preparations, molluscs, arachnids and crustaceans, fish, worms, insects and radiolaria as well as permanent preparations, historical cartographic material and plaster models. The Institute of Zoology was re-established in 1994, at which point the Collection was also set up once more. The basic stock consists mainly of specimens returned from Dresden’s Museum of Zoology and of objects from the collections of the Institute of Zoology at the University of Bonn and of the “Museum of the Study of Hunt Animals and Ornithology” (Museum für Jagdtier- und Vogelkunde) in the Ore Mountains. Institute of Zoology Seminar building 2, Zellescher Weg 20 Gudrun Wolf, Tel.: +49 351-463 331 67 Gudrun.Wolf@tu-dresden.de Visits upon request Sand viper (Vipera ammodytes) Zoological Teaching Collection
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