(1812-1867) was involved in a Land Arctic Searching Expedition organized by the Hudson Bay Company to solve the mystery of , where both the and disappeared while attempting to find the Northwest Passage. His collections from the Great Fish and Mackenzie Rivers in the Northwest Territories form the earliest of the ɬÀï·¬ Herbarium Arctic collections.
(1817-1885), the Royal Navy surgeon on the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror during a (1839-1843), was also a natural historian with an interest in botany. Sixty duplicates from his collections in Fiji and the Falkland Islands are housed at the ɬÀï·¬ Herbarium. Ogden Taylor (BSc Environment 2026 ) uncovers the story of these specimens through an interactive he made while undertaking an undergraduate research project at the ɬÀï·¬ Herbarium in Winter, 2025.