Once you get the hang of collecting and making specimens, you might want to think about taking all this hard work and making your specimens into a collection.

There a few ways to think of why and how you would make a collection.

• It could be your own personal taxonomic reference guide to all the new species you have learned in your life time and where you found them – ‘Cataloguing‘
• Your collection could be useful for depositing at your local herbarium – ‘Submit to a Herbaria‘
• Your collection could be a hobby collection to remember all the places you have travelled and what you collected during your trips – ‘Personal Collections’.