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Journal article
The global distribution of plants used by humans.
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Exhibition
Unearthing Indigenous and Enslaved African Horticultural Knowledge in St Vincent Botanical Garden (1785-1811).
The St. Vincent Botanical Garden was established in 1765 as the first Botanical Garden in the Caribbean and was intended, by the British colonial authorities, to ensure that military personnel stationed on the island had some form of health care. Over time the Garden developed into a nursery for plants... -
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Conference paper (published)
Re-evaluating Student Treatments of Barkcloth Artefacts from the Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lennard, Frances ; Tamura, Misa ; Nesbitt, Mark
Economic botany, Treatment re-evaluation, Storage, Documentation, Barkcloth, Tapa, and Textile conservation education
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Journal article
Between Metropole and Province: circulating botany in British museums, 1870–1940.
Exchange of duplicate specimens was an important element of the relationship between metropolitan and regional museums in the period 1870–1940. Evidence of transfers of botanical museum objects such as economic botany specimens is explored for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and six museums outside the capital: Cambridge University Botanical Museum,... -
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Book chapter
Preface.
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Journal article
The likely extinction of hundreds of palm species threatens their contributions to people and ecosystems.
Bellot, S. ; Lu, Y. ; Antonelli, A. ; Baker, W. J. ; Dransfield, J. …
Extinction, Ecosystem services, Economic botany, Biodiversity, Palmae, Ethnobotany, Palms, and Conservation biology
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Research report
“Specimens Distributed”: The Circulation of Objects from Kew’s Economic Botany Collection.
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