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Australian National Botanic Gardens
Australian National Herbarium |
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August 2008
ANBG Postal Address:
GPO Box 1777 CANBERRA, ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA
ANBG Street Address:
Clunies Ross Street, ACTON, ACT, AUSTRALIA
ANBG Telephone: (02) 6250-9450
ANBG Facsimilie: (02) 6250-9599
ANBG Email: email@anbg.gov.auFriends of the ANBG: (02) 6250-9548
Café (Hudsons at the Gardens): (02) 6248-9680 Email: hudsonscatering@bigpond.com
Shop (The Botanical Bookshop): (02) 6257-3302 Email: sales@botanicalbookshop.com.auANBG staff telephone list
ANBG Website: http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/
CPBR Postal Address:
GPO Box 1600 CANBERRA, ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA
CPBR Telephone: (02) 6246-5108
CPBR Facsimilie: (02) 6246-5249CPBR staff telephone list
CPBR Email: cpbr-info@anbg.gov.au
CPBR Website: http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/
To grow, study and promote Australian plants (Mission Statement)
Total area
90ha
Developed Area
40ha
Latitude
35 ° 6' South
Longitude
149 ° 6' East
Altitude
571-677 metres
Rainfall
664 mm (details since 1968) (2005 info)
First planting
1949
Officially opened
20 Oct 1970
| Director ANBG:
Anne Duncan |
Director CPBR:
Dr Judy West |
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Manager (Curator), Gardens : David Taylor A/g |
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2007-2008 financial year
2007 calendar year
Friends' Guided Tours financial year 2006-2007
School groups for 2007-08 financial year:
Students for 2007-08 financial year: 13,208
Calendar Year 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007JANUARY
13 groups
1,333 participants14 groups
3,307 participants2 groups
3,034 participants14 groups
5,224 participants22 groups
5425 participants9 groups
4320 participantsFEBRUARY
4 groups
144 participants4 groups
91 participants13 groups
598 participants5 groups
129 participants10 groups
198 participants6 groups
167 participantsMARCH
22 groups
1,847 participants22 groups
971 participants15 groups
774 participants23 groups
1,029 participants19 groups
701 participants17 groups
686 participantsAPRIL
12 groups
857 participants14 groups
717 participants7 groups
381 participants22 groups
930 participants21 groups
677 participants6 groups
257 participantsMAY
26 groups
1,054 participants55 groups
2,933 participants29 groups
1,358 participants34 groups
2,142 participants32 groups
1320 participants28 groups
1312 participantsJUNE
21 groups
1,000 participants32 groups
1,495 participants23 groups
1,130 participants18 groups
1,037 participants17 groups
940 participants24 groups
1122 participantsJULY
8 groups
334 participants3 groups
71 participants25 groups
1,223 participants17 groups
821 participants19 groups
603 participants6 groups
273 participantsAUGUST
23 groups
1,042 participants34 groups
2,018 participants23 groups
736 participants33 groups
1,641 participants30 groups
1272 participants40 groups
1811 participantsSEPTEMBER
21 groups
1,190 participants46 groups
1,929 participants26 groups
1,118 participants45 groups
1,958 participants54 groups
2478 participants46 groups
2275 participantsOCTOBER
26 groups
834 participants25 groups
1,136 participants27 groups
1,095 participants31 groups
1,357 participants35 groups
1254 participants26 groups
1186 participantsNOVEMBER
28 Groups
1221 Participants38 groups
1,988 participants46 groups
2,973 participants38 groups
2,401 participants55 groups
2428 participants44 groups
1956 participantsDECEMBER
7 Groups
363 Participants17 groups
778 participants12 groups
569 participants11 groups
587 participants23 groups
1059 participants20 groups
979 participantsTOTAL GROUPS
PARTICIPANTS211 groups
11,189 participants312 groups
17,614 participants248 groups
14,989 participants291 groups
14,267 participants337 groups
18355 participants264 groups
12044 participants4320 public pro
16364 Total
Planted in 2007-2008: 4,535 plants
Number of taxa
Number of specimens
Total
6,339
78,146
Open ground (plantings)
5,096
67,033
Controlled Environment
Glasshouses, poly-house, etc1,767
5,774
Under propagation
(trays / pots)627
4,297
Seed collections
2,964
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CANB = Australian National Herbarium in Canberra
GROUP
Total no. Specimens
Total no. specimens databased
Percent databased (%)
Total no. Types
Dicots
625,797
453,875
72.5
5,348
Monocots
158,892
141,937
89.3
1,410
Gymnosperms
4,026
3,965
98.5
31
Pteridophytes
19,813
18,833
95.1
71
Mosses
99,662
58,420
58.6
172
Hepatics
29,668
16,914
57.0
94
Hornworts
434
434
100.0
1
Lichens
144,018
74,545
51.8
886
Fungi
11,590
11,590
100.0
83
Slime Moulds
152
145
95.4
0
***Algae (incl. Lucus colln. c. 5,468)
7,025
401
5.7
1
TOTAL
1,101,077
781,059
70.9
8,097
*** Lucus Collection is on long term loan at NSW and is being databased by NSW
QRS was Australian National Herbarium at Atherton, North Queensland. - This collection is now part of the Australian Tropical Herbarium (CNS) located in Cairns and its statistics are reported separately.
CANB figures for the year July 2007– June 2008
Mounting - cryptogam
1,946
Mounting - vascular
14,363
Mounting - Total
16,309
New Accessions - v & c
24,321
Databasing additions
38,519
Total specimens databased
781,059
Total no. specimens
1,101,077
Herbarium Loans & Exchange transactions 1 July 2006– 30 June 2007
No. of dispatches
July 04 – June 05
TOTAL
No. of items
July 04 – June 05
TOTAL
CANB
QRS
CANB
QRS
Outloans sent from
43
1
44
2459
1489
3948
Outloans returned
45
5
50
2243
330
2573
Inloans received
34
0
34
434
0
434
Inloans returned
78
0
78
4175
0
4175
Inloans transferred
2
0
2
2
0
2
Exchange sent
60
0
60
11049
0
11049
Exchange received
88
1
89
5496
2
5498
Plant identifications for the public via the ANBG Visitor Centre
Identified by Herbarium staff: 2006 = 156; 2007 = 186; Jan-June 2008 = 87
Total number of 35mm slides: 48,020
Plant portraits and whole plant profiles
35,757
Number of distinct plant taxa in collection
10,084
Non-plant slides
13,773
Digital images on web
16,094
Slides contributed to collection 2007-08
1,684
Slides digitized 2007-08
2,533
Digital images added 2007-08
2,082
Images donated under tax incentives scheme 2007-08
0
Images donated (not tax incentives scheme)
2,500
Slides borrowed 2007-08
64
Images used under licence 2007-08
1,196
www.anbg.gov.au (includes ANBG and CPBR)
= www.cpbr.gov.auANBG web server and IBIS Database stats for year:
24 million hits deliver nearly a Terabyte of data in 18 million pages to 2.6 million client networks.
1.2 million of these requests are direct, database queries.Public email Enquiries or Requests answered per month in 2008
Web figures at July 2008
Jan=41; Feb=103; Mar=70; Apr=72; May=83; Jun= 88; Jul=114; Aug=91
Number of HTML web pages in website
39,833
Number of images (mostly JPEGs) on site
31,056
Total number of objects accessable from home page
71,964
HTML pages successfully accessed in June 2008
1,195,684
Average HTML pages successfully accessed per day, June 2007
39,875
Web requests made to IBIS database per day in June 2008
4,729
Average data transferred per day in June 2008
2.42 gigabytes
Totals
Number of book titles: 13,356
Number of serial titles: 650
Maps: 5000
Audio-visual titles: 236
Rare book collection: 350
Archive collection: 1256Actions in 2004/2005
Items added to collection: 1376
Loans: 3510
Reference enquiries: 810
Total Staff Allocation: 60.7