With the increasing financial squeeze faced by taxonomists, the time may now have come to dispense with massive herbarium collections. Indeed, the clear-out might lead to a better quality of taxonomic research.
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Clifford, H., Rogers, R. & Dettmann, M. Where now for taxonomy?. Nature 346, 602 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/346602a0
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