Reposted by Julia Carretero
This year, the taxonomists on the Fungarium Sequencing Project had a goal to review 10,000 specimens. They hit their target an impressive three months ahead of schedule, so to celebrate their hard work, here are some of the stories they’ve uncovered!
![A newspaper cutting adhered to a guard paper in a bound volume. Someone has written in ink the title of the newspaper it has been taken from: 'Egyptian Gazette, Alexandria, 22 June 1880'. The section of the article that has been photographed reads: 'Dr. Schweinfurth, whose departure for Socotra was announced in our columns on 23rd February 1881, returned to Saez on 19th inst. The doctor's account of his trip to Socotra and his stay on the island is highly interesting, and we trust to his kindness to enable us to give our readers some further details later on. In the meantime the following brief notes furnished to us may prove of interest. The doctor made the voyage from Aden to Socotra in a native vessel, he does not appear to have very pleasant recollections of this voyage, which lasted for one month. On the voyage the vessel called at Shugra, Bolhaf, and el Hami, after which the course was set across the Gulf of Aden from Ras Sharma to Socotra. At Socotra Dr Schweinfurth remained for a month, making daily investigations into the rich flora of the [...]. Vegetation is very luxuriant [...].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h2nzrepsboow5qu42xtebgn/bafkreichgadz2yispvthcqduhnqtz7dsbcv6b6trctis7zqftfm4xkoh6a)
