Question: The herbarium located in the capital of Scotland was founded in what year ?

text: List of herbaria
Europe
For herbaria with fewer than 300,000 specimens , see List of herbaria in Europe .
This is a list of herbaria, organized first by continent where the herbarium is located, then within each continent by size of the collection. A herbarium (plural herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens. These specimens may be whole plants or plant parts: these will usually be in a dried form, mounted on a sheet, but depending upon the material may also be kept in alcohol or other preservative. The same term is often used in mycology to describe an equivalent collection of preserved fungi and in phycology to describe a collection of algae. To preserve their form and color, plants collected in the field are spread flat on sheets of newsprint and dried, usually in a plant press, between blotters or absorbent paper. The specimens, which are then mounted on sheets of stiff white paper, are labeled with all essential data, such as date and place found, description of the plant, altitude, and special habitat conditions. The sheet is then placed in a protective case. As a precaution against insect attack, the pressed plant is frozen or poisoned and the case disinfected. Most herbaria utilize a standard system of organizing their specimens into herbarium cases. Specimen sheets are stacked in groups by the species to which they belong and placed into a large lightweight folder that is labelled on the bottom edge. Groups of species folders are then placed together into larger, heavier folders by genus. The genus folders are then sorted by taxonomic family according to the standard system selected for use by the herbarium and placed into pigeonholes in herbarium cabinets.
Name No . Specimens Abbr Location Website
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 9,500,000 P , PC France ; Paris [ 52 ]
Komarov Botanical Institute ( Ботанический институт имени В.Л . Комарова ) 7,160,000 LE Russia ; St. Petersburg [ 53 ]
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 7,000,000 K UK ; Kew , England [ 54 ]
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève 6,000,000 G Switzerland ; Geneva [ 55 ]
Naturalis Biodiversity Center ( Nationaal Herbarium Nederland ) 5,700,000 AMD , L , U , WAG Netherlands ; Leiden [ 56 ]
British Museum of Natural History 5,200,000 BM UK ; London , England [ 57 ]
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 5,000,000 W Austria ; Vienna [ 58 ]
Swedish Museum of Natural History ( Naturhistoriska riksmuseet ) 4,400,000 S Sweden ; Stockholm [ 59 ]
Université Montpellier 4,000,000 MPU France ; Montpellier [ 60 ]
Université Claude Bernard 4,000,000 LY France ; Lyon [ 61 ]
Herbarium Haussknecht Friedrich Schiller University Jena 3,500,000 JE Germany , Jena [ 62 ]
Joint Herbarium of the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich 3,500,000 Z+ZT Switzerland , Zurich [ 63 ]
Botanic Garden Meise 3,500,000 BR Belgium , Meise [ 64 ]
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem , Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin 3,000,000 B Germany , Berlin [ 65 ]
Finnish Museum of Natural History ( University of Helsinki ) 3,000,000 H Finland , Helsinki [ 66 ]
Botanische Staatssammlung München 3,000,000 M Germany , Munich [ 67 ]
University of Copenhagen 2,510,000 C Denmark , Copenhagen [ 68 ]
Hungarian Natural History Museum - Department of Botany 2,000,000 BP Budapest , Hungary [ 69 ]
Royal Botanic Garden , Edinburgh 2,000,000 E UK ; Edinburgh , Scotland [ 70 ]
Herbarium Hamburgense 1,800,000 HBG Germany , Hamburg [ 71 ]