Serradella, alfalfa and sand vetches are just a few examples of forage crops that have left their mark in the archives of Amaat Dumon, professor of agricultural sciences. As head of the Breeding Station of the Belgian Farmers' Union, of the university Laboratory for Applied Genetics and of the Flemish department of the General Inspection Service for Seeds and Seeds, Dumon was an expert in the extraction, propagation and breeding of seeds. His remarkable didactic collection includes dozens of test tubes, sachets and aspirin tubes filled with colorful seeds.
The herbarium of the Biblical Museum or 'Musée biblique' of KU Leuven consists of about ninety frames with dried flowers and plants, collected by Jozef Vandervorst (1884-1959) in Palestine. The identifying cards mention the scientific and vernacular name of the plants, their provenance and some biblical references. The herbarium further includes more than fifty unidentified dried plants, which have not yet been framed and a few small boxes with seed samples.
Vandervorst was a student at the renowned École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem and in 1910, he was charged by Rector Paulin Ladeuze (1870-1940) with building up the collection of the newly founded Musée biblique of the Leuven university. The main purpose of this museum was to introduce the students of theology to the material culture of the Holy Land at the time of Jesus.
