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Lucinda Cameron

Around 700,000 specimens to be digitised in project to document biodiversity

Moths from National Museums Scotland’s collection will be digitised (Neil Hanna/PA) -

Digital records of around 700,000 specimens held in Scotland’s natural science collections are to be created in a digitisation project that will help unlock “critical information” about biodiversity.

More than 250,000 insects from National Museums Scotland (NMS) and 388,000 herbarium specimens from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh will become digitally accessible to all through the project, along with thousands of specimens from other collections.

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