Journal articles: 'Royal Botanic Gardens (Vic ) History'

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Schmid, Rudolf, and Ray Desmond. "Kew: The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens." Taxon 45, no. 1 (February 1996): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1222614.

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PRANCE, GHILLEAN. "The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew." Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161, no. 2 (October 2009): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00937.x.

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Green, P. S., and Lionel Gilbert. "The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. A History 1816-1985." Kew Bulletin 43, no. 2 (1988): 362. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4113748.

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McCracken, Donal P., and Lionel Gilbert. "The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney: A History 1816-1985." Garden History 16, no. 1 (1988): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1586911.

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Braithwaite, Katherine. "Women Working in Botanic Gardens Globally." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 13 (November 10, 2015): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2015.73.

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This paper represents a condensed account of a thesis produced during the author’s studies at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The body of work represents the findings from a study into the current status of the barriers and opportunities for women working in botanic gardens. The research makes a global assessment of the careers of women working presently in botanic horticulture and science, from the perspective of those women working in the industry. A survey of 29 questions was produced and distributed to over 800 botanic gardens. With responses from women working across the globe, the report measures and correlates qualitative and quantitative data from participants, assessing areas such as their educational history, opportunities in their workplace, perceived barriers and hopes for the future. The survey produced 573 responses, with women participating from all parts of the globe from the USA to Yemen, New Zealand to Brazil. The report includes an introduction, methodology, a short literature review, the significant findings and conclusions arising from the data.

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Meikle, R. D. "The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Ray Desmond." Curtis's Botanical Magazine 26, no. 1-2 (April 2009): 192–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8748.2009.01648.x.

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Prance, Ghillean T. "A brief history of conservation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Kew Bulletin 65, no. 4 (December 2010): 501–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12225-010-9231-2.

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Fowler, Andrea. "The Value of Record Keeping: a Case Study from Four Elderly Orchid Accessions." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 3 (October 31, 2005): 27–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2005.109.

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The history of four orchids growing at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), some of the oldest accessions still in cultivation in the Indoor Department, is outlined. Records from the time of their arrival have been invaluable in providing an insight into the history of plant collecting, introduction and cultivation methods from the 1890s. They demonstrate the importance of accurate record keeping and the potential for species conservation in botanic gardens.

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Ward, Marilyn, and John Flanagan. "Portraying plants: illustrations collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Art Libraries Journal 28, no. 2 (2003): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200013080.

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The Library & Archives at Kew hold one of the world’s greatest collections of botanical illustration, assembled over the last 200 years. A resource well-known to the natural history community, it contains much to interest art historians. Using this historically rich heritage our forward thinking includes acquisition of more contemporary items and the formulation of a digital strategy for 21st-century access and exploitation.

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Sim, Jean. "Queen's Parks in Queensland." Queensland Review 19, no. 1 (June 2012): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.3.

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Queen's Park in Maryborough is one of many public gardens established in the nineteenth century in Queensland: in Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Warwick, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns and Cooktown. They were created primarily as places of horticultural experimentation, as well as for recreational purposes. They formed a local area network, with the Brisbane Botanic Garden and the Government Botanist, Walter Hill, at the centre – at least in the 1870s. From here, the links extended to other botanic gardens in Australia, and beyond Australia to the British colonial network managed through the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew. It was an informal network, supplying a knowledge of basic economic botany that founded many tropical agricultural industries and also provided much-needed recreational, educational and inspirational opportunities for colonial newcomers and residents. The story of these parks, from the time when they were first set aside as public reserves by the government surveyors to the present day, is central to the history of urban planning in regional centres. This article provides a statewide overview together with a more in-depth examination of Maryborough's own historic Queen's Park.

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Morris, Leigh, and Laura Cohen. "The Development of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ‘Certificate in Practical Horticulture’." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 8 (November 13, 2010): 165–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2010.144.

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The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has a long history of delivering high-quality practical horticultural training within the UK and abroad. In 2007 this training was formalised by the RBGE Education Department into the ‘RBGE Certificate in Practical Horticulture’ (CPH) programme. The vision for the CPH was to create an internationally recognised and standardised, yet flexible and practical horticultural qualification, predominantly, but not exclusively, for the botanic gardens sector. Providing a measurable educational outcome for international development projects is increasing the contribution that RBGE makes to target 15 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. This paper reviews the development of the CPH programme, through its initial conception, the writing of the first course syllabus, the evolution of the course structure and content, up to the course now being offered today. The initial success of the CPH is discussed, detailing the different locations in which the course has been delivered to date and the other gardens that are now offering the CPH themselves. Recent developments are discussed, including the endorsement of the course by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the funding awarded by the Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust in 2010 for course development. The paper ends by highlighting the future objectives for the CPH, including the development of new and improved tutor and learner support materials, the offering of ‘train the trainer’ programmes that will facilitate the wider uptake of these courses and the vision for the programme to become a benchmark for practical horticultural training worldwide.

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PICKERING, ANNE T. "DESMOND, R. Kew: The history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. The Harvill Press with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1995. Pp xvi, 466. Price £25.00. ISBN 1-860-47076-3." Archives of Natural History 24, no. 1 (February 1997): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1997.24.1.160.

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Cubey, Robert, Elspeth Haston, and Sally King. "Label Transcript is Done – Now what do we do with that Data?" Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e27055. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.27055.

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The transcription of natural history collection labels is occurring via a variety of different methods – in-house curators, commercial operations, citizen scientists, visiting researchers, linked data, optical character recognition (OCR), handwritten text recognition (HTR), etc., but what can a collections data manager do with this flood of data? There are a whole raft of questions around this incoming data stream - who values it, who needs it, where is it stored, where is it displayed, who has access to it, etc. This talk plans to address these topics with reference to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh herbarium dataset.

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Hughes, Kate, and Dipak Lamichhane. "The National Botanic Garden of Nepal." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 15 (December 8, 2017): 9–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2017.220.

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The National Botanic Garden of Nepal (NBG) lies 16km south of Kathmandu, at the base of Phulchowki, the highest mountain in the Kathmandu Valley. It was inaugurated in 1962 by King Mahendra and since that time the collections have developed, many of them into named areas and groupings. The year 2016 was the bicentenary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and Great Britain, and this was marked in the NBG with the development of a Biodiversity Education Garden. This was created in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), and the occasion signified a revitalisation of collaborative relations between the NBG and British botanic gardens which started in the early 1960s with the appointment to NBG of British horticulturists Geoffrey Herklots and, later, Tony Schilling. The history of the garden, its layout and collections, and the activities and outcomes of the recent collaborations are described and illustrated with colour photographs.

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Cook, A. "Plants illustrating exotic collections." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 55, no. 1 (January 22, 2001): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2001.0130.

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The study of plants was nothing new when The Royal Society was founded, but some of our earliest Fellows changed it drastically. Perhaps they did not do this as suddenly or as completely as did Newton for dynamics, but in the long run they had at least as great an influence on views of the natural world and how to study it. Did God create all the great variety of plants no one (in Europe) had ever seen before, and if so why? Plants brought back by explorers, especially from North America, and plants looked at in the microscope, together with the taxonomic system constructed by Linnaeus, replaced the plants grown in monastic gardens and their successors in public botanic gardens, and the study of plants for purely medicinal uses.

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Fitzgerald, Sylvia. "Archives cataloguing on computer at the royal botanic gardens, Kew: Using MARC, international standards and unicorn." Journal of the Society of Archivists 16, no. 2 (September 1995): 179–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00379819509511776.

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Lambert, Harold. "The other Dr Hooker: William Dawson Hooker (1816–40)." Journal of Medical Biography 19, no. 4 (November 2011): 141–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jmb.2011.010062.

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William Hooker and his son Joseph were famous as botanists and as the creators of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Joseph was famous also as the friend and mentor of Charles Darwin. But there was another brother, a little older than Joseph, also a doctor and naturalist. He went to Jamaica in the interests of his health and soon died there of yellow fever. His life was short and tragic with a medical conundrum at its end but its story also illustrates many of the beliefs and concerns that preoccupied doctors in this early Victorian era. It also illustrates the close relationship between medicine and botany that prevailed then.

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LUCAS, A. M. "Disposing of John Lindley's library and herbarium: the offer to Australia." Archives of Natural History 35, no. 1 (April 2008): 15–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0260954108000053.

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Shortly before he died, John Lindley decided to dispose of his herbarium and botanical library. He sold his orchid herbarium to the United Kingdom government for deposit at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and then offered his library and the remainder of his herbarium to Ferdinand Mueller in Melbourne. On his behalf, Joseph Hooker had earlier unsuccessfully offered the library and remnant herbarium to the University of Sydney, using the good offices of Sir Charles Nicholson. Although neither the University of Sydney nor Mueller was able to raise the necessary funds to purchase either collection, the correspondence allows a reconstruction of a catalogue of Lindley's library, and poses some questions about Joseph Hooker's motives in attempting to dispose of Lindley's material outside the United Kingdom. The final disposal of the herbarium to Cambridge and previous analyses of the purchase of his Library for the Royal Horticultural Society are discussed. A list of the works from Lindley's library offered for sale to Australia is appended.

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Walker, Kim, Esther García Guillén, Nataly Allasi Canales, Leopoldo Medina, Felix Driver, Nina Rønsted, and Mark Nesbitt. "Reconnecting the Cinchona (Rubiaceae) collections of the “Real Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú” (1777-1816)." Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 79, no. 1 (September 2, 2022): e119. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/ajbm.2613.

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During the “Real Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú”, 1777-1816, Hipólito Ruiz López (1754-1816), José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), Juan José Tafalla Navascués (1755-1811) and Juan Agustín Manzanilla (fl. 1793-1816) collected economically important specimens of anti-malarial cinchona bark (Cinchona spp.). In the 230 years since, these specimens have been dispersed across institutions in Spain, Britain, Germany and Italy. Two major sub-collections of these are found at the Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain (n = 243), and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK (n = 188). The Kew collection arrived in Britain through Pavón and other Spanish botanists selling part of the collections. This study traces the history, trajectory and relationship of the collections between the two institutes.

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McDERMOTT, UNA. "PONSONBY, L. Marianne North at Kew Gardens. H.M.S.O. in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London: 1996. Pp 128. Price £19.95. ISBN 0-11-250096-X." Archives of Natural History 24, no. 2 (June 1997): 301–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1997.24.2.301a.

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Cornish, Caroline, and Felix Driver. "‘Specimens Distributed’." Journal of the History of Collections 32, no. 2 (May 13, 2019): 327–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhz008.

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Abstract This paper presents research on the dispersal of objects from the Museum of Economic Botany at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (rbgk) from 1847 to 1914. Established by William Hooker, the museum received thousands of objects from around the world, the display of which was designed to illustrate plants’ properties and economic potential. The paper argues that the conventional focus in museum studies on processes of acquisition and accumulation captures only one side of collections’ history. Drawing on research in archives and collections at Kew and elsewhere, we highlight the redistribution of specimens and artefacts from Kew’s museum through a variety of channels. We focus on three modes of circulation: firstly, Kew’s role as a clearing house for collections; secondly the exchange of objects; and thirdly the distribution of specimens and artefacts to schools across the British Isles, a practice which became prevalent towards the end of the period.

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Cornish, Caroline, Patricia Allan, Lauren Gardiner, Poppy Nicol, Heather Pardoe, Craig Sherwood, Rachel Webster, Donna Young, and Mark Nesbitt. "Between Metropole and Province: circulating botany in British museums, 1870–1940." Archives of Natural History 47, no. 1 (April 2020): 124–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2020.0627.

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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, National Museum Wales, Glasgow Museums, Liverpool World Museum, Manchester Museum and Warrington Museum. Botany became an important element in these museums soon after their foundation, sometimes relying heavily on Kew material as in the case of Glasgow and Warrington, and usually with a strong element of economic botany (except in the case of Cambridge). Patterns of exchange depended on personal connections and rarely took the form of symmetrical relationships. Botanical displays declined in importance at various points between the 1920s and 1960s, and today only Warrington Museum has a botanical gallery open to the public. However, botanical objects are finding new roles in displays on subjects such as local history, history of collections, natural history and migration.

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Wiemann, Dirk. "Layer after layer: Aerial roots and routes of translation." Thesis Eleven 162, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513621990772.

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When the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in South London were opened to the general public in the 1840s, they were presented as a ‘world text’: a collection of flora from all over the world, with the spectacular tropical (read: colonial) specimens taking centre stage as indexes of Britain’s imperial supremacy. However, the one exotic plant species that preoccupied the British cultural imagination more than any other remained conspicuously absent from the collection: the banyan tree, whose non-transferability left a significant gap in the ‘text’ of the garden, thereby effectively puncturing the illusion of comprehensive global command that underpins the biopolitical designs of what Richard Grove has aptly dubbed ‘green imperialism’. This article demonstrates how, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the banyan tree became an object of fascination and admiration for British scientists, painters, writers and photographers precisely because of its obstinate non-availability to colonial control and visual or even conceptual representability.

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COHEN, ALAN. "Mary Elizabeth Barber: South Africa's first lady natural historian." Archives of Natural History 27, no. 2 (June 2000): 187–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2000.27.2.187.

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An account of the life of a nineteenth century South African frontiers-woman who, without any formal education, made a name for herself as a plant collector and natural historian. Born in England, she emigrated as a child of 2 years of age with her family as one of the British settlers to the Grahamstown area in 1820. From the age of 20 she corresponded with several eminent English biologists, and had scientific papers on botany and entomology published in a number of journals. She was later involved in the early discoveries of diamonds and gold in South Africa. One of her sons was amongst the first to see and paint the Victoria Falls after their discovery by Livingstone. With her younger brother James Henry Bowker she collected and sent back a large number of plants, many of them previously unknown, to the herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She collaborated with her older brother Thomas Holden Bowker in building up one of the earliest collections of stone-age implements in South Africa, some of which are now in the British Museum.

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Harrison, Mark. "Ray Desmond, The European Discovery of the Indian Flora. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Royal Botanic Gardens, 1992. Pp. viii + 355. ISBN 0-19-854684-X. £60.00." British Journal for the History of Science 26, no. 2 (June 1993): 237–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400030818.

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Ollerton, Jeff, Gordon Chancellor, and John van Wyhe. "John Tweedie and Charles Darwin in Buenos Aires." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 66, no. 2 (January 4, 2012): 115–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2011.0052.

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The journey of exploration undertaken by Charles Darwin FRS during the voyage of HMS Beagle has a central place within the historical development of evolutionary theory and has been intensively studied. Despite this, new facts continue to emerge about some of the details of Darwin's activities. Drawing on recently published Darwin material and unpublished letters in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, we document a hitherto unexamined link between Darwin and John Tweedie (1775–1862), a relatively obscure Scottish gardener turned South American plant collector. All of the available evidence points to a meeting between the two men in Buenos Aires in 1832. Tweedie provided Darwin with information about the geography of the Rio Paraná, including the locality of fossilized wood eroding from the river bank. It also seems likely that Tweedie supplied Darwin with seeds that he later shipped back to John Stevens Henslow in Cambridge. Although this brief meeting was at the time relatively unimportant to either man, echoes of that encounter have resonated with Tweedie's descendants to the present day and have formed the basis for a family story about a written correspondence between Darwin and Tweedie. Local information supplied to Darwin by residents such as Tweedie was clearly important and deserves further attention.

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Cohn, Helen M. "Bibliography of the History of Australian Science, No. 29, 2008." Historical Records of Australian Science 20, no. 1 (2009): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr09008.

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This bibliography, in geographic terms, covers principally Australia, but also New Zealand, New Guinea and other islands of the Pacific Ocean near Australia, and Antarctica. It includes material on the history of the natural sciences (mathematics, physical sciences, earth sciences and biological sciences), some of the applied sciences (including medical and health sciences, agriculture, manufacturing and engineering), and human sciences (psychology, anthropology and sociology). Biographical material on practitioners in these sciences is also of interest. The sources used in compiling this bibliography include those that have proved useful in the past in finding relevant citations. The library catalogues of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, the National Library of Australia and the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga O Aotearoa were particularly useful sources of information. Journals that have yielded articles for previous bibliographies were checked, as were some titles that have not previously been scanned. Hence a number of citations are included that were published earlier than 2008. Assistance has been received from a number of people who sent items or information about items published in 2008 for inclusion in the bibliography. In particular, Professor Rod Home has been most helpful in forwarding relevant citations. Staff of the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, especially Helen Morgan, were of great assistance in the preparation of this bibliography. Readers may have access to information about relevant books, journal articles, conference papers, reports, Master's and PhD theses and reviews published in 2009. They are encouraged to send such information to the compiler at the above email address for inclusion in future bibliographies.

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Fulton, Graham R. "Museum: The Macleays, Their Collections and the Search for Order." Pacific Conservation Biology 17, no. 2 (2011): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc110162.

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STACEY and Hay have previously collaborated on the volume Herbarium (Stacey and Hay 2004) regarding collections held in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Ashley Hay has published two books of narrative non-fiction. Her essays, short stories and journalism have appeared in various periodicals including The Bulletin where she was a literary editor. Robyn Stacey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Western Sydney. She is an acclaimed photographer, in Australia, with her photography shown in Australia and internationally. This book is about the history, collectors and collections of The Macleay Museum at The University of Sydney. Its aim is to bring the reader closer to the collectors and collections by breathing life into the characters and selected specimens in the collection; according to the dust-jacket’s hyperbole, to throw open the doors of the museum and its rich collections. The authors develop the book with their individual skills, one of writing and one of photography. The second is facilitated through its aesthetic appeal, its folio size and large photographic reproductions of strikingly coloured specimens. The whole is a coffee-table-style-book with a text that digs deeper developing the background to the personalities and collections, intertwining them with the history of early systematists/collectors, which provides the backbone of the text.

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McDERMOTT, UNA. "LEWIS, J. Walter Hood Fitch: a celebration. H.M.S.O. in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London: 1992. Pp viii, 107. Price £17.95. ISBN 0-11-250066-8." Archives of Natural History 24, no. 2 (June 1997): 301. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1997.24.2.301.

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NELSON, E. CHARLES. "S. MAYO. Margaret Mee's Amazon. Paintings ofplants from Brazilian Amazonia by Margaret Mee. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1988. Pp 56; illustrated. Price: not supplied. ISBN 0-947643-13-3." Archives of Natural History 17, no. 3 (October 1990): 390–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1990.17.3.390a.

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Raj, Kapil. "Henry J. Noltie, Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. 3 vols. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2008. Pp. 215, 208 and 88. ISBN 978-1-906129-02-6. £75.00 (paperback, boxed set)." British Journal for the History of Science 42, no. 4 (November 26, 2009): 606–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087409990446.

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Smith, Nathan E. C. "Narrative histories in mycology and the legacy of George Edward Massee (1845–1917)." Archives of Natural History 47, no. 2 (October 2020): 361–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2020.0661.

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Mycology is a relatively small and young discipline that has yet to achieve the institutional presence of similar disciplines such as botany and zoology. Because of this, mycological histories are often written by practitioners aiming to establish a narrative of professionalization that confirms mycology as a scientific discipline instead of a natural history pursuit. George Edward Massee (1845–1917) was one of the foremost mycologists of the late nineteenth century, achieving the top position in the field as Principal Assistant (Cryptogams) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and publishing over 250 books and articles. Providing a link between the great Victorian mycologists Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825–1914) and the Revd Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889) and the more modern school that included the likes of Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886–1972), he achieved this position without a university education. However, since his death, his achievements have been subject to multiple negative assessments and, as a result, he has become increasingly obscured in the history of British mycology. The majority of these unfavourable appraisals originated from the publications of Dr John Ramsbottom (1885–1974), a mycologist and historian who was a key member of the British Mycological Society and a founding member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. These articles were published across the first half of the twentieth century, and Ramsbottom's works have since become standard texts in both the biography of Massee and the history of British mycology. Here I question the validity of the substance of Ramsbottom's claims against Massee, given the circumstances under which Ramsbottom's articles were written and the relationship between Massee and the fledgling British Mycological Society, initially run by Carleton Rea (1861–1946) and of which Ramsbottom was a senior member. I examine wider reasons for such strong criticism of Massee and explore the professional differences and relationships between Massee and Ramsbottom, placing the analysis firmly in the context of changing scientific practice occurring in the early twentieth century.

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WIJNANDS, D. O. "DESMOND, R. The European discovery of the Indian flora. Royal Botanic Gardens & Oxford University Press, Kew and Oxford: 1992. Pp xii, 355 [+ 32 pp plates]; illustrated. Price: £ 60.00. ISBN: 0-19-854684-X." Archives of Natural History 20, no. 3 (October 1993): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1993.20.3.441.

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KILLICK, D. J. B. "McCRACKEN, D. P. and McCRACKEN, P. A. Natal the garden colony. Victorian Natal and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Frandsen Publishers, Sandton: 1991. Pp xxi, 2–99; illustrated. Price: none stated. ISBN: 0-9583124-1-9." Archives of Natural History 19, no. 3 (October 1992): 413. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1992.19.3.413a.

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MYLECHREEST, MURRAY. "BANKS, R. E. R., ELLIOTT, B., HAWKES, J. G., KING-HELE, D. and LUCAS, G. LI. Sir Joseph Banks: a global perspective. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1994. Pp ii, 235; illustrated. Price £ 12.00. ISBN: 0-947643-61-3." Archives of Natural History 22, no. 1 (February 1995): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1995.22.1.136.

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NELSON, E. C. "BLUNT, W. and STEARN, W. T. The art of botanical illustration. New edition, revised and enlarged. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1994. Pp 368: illustrated. Price: £ 29.95. ISBN 1-85149-177-5." Archives of Natural History 22, no. 1 (February 1995): 143–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1995.22.1.143.

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RICHARDS, JOHN. "CRIBB, P. The genus Cypripedium. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Botanical Magazine Monograph. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon: 1997. Pp 301, 124 colour plates (26 paintings, 98 photographs), 51 line drawings, 22 maps. Price $39.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-88192-103-2." Archives of Natural History 25, no. 2 (June 1998): 297–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1998.25.2.297.

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MEIKLE, R. D. "DESMOND, R. and HEPPER, E N. A century of Kew plantsmen. A celebration of The Kew Guild. The Kew Guild, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond: 1993. Pp viii, 188+8 colour plates; illustrated. Price: £ 15.00. ISBN: 0-9504149-1-3." Archives of Natural History 21, no. 2 (June 1994): 247–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1994.21.2.247a.

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NELSON, E. C. "BRUMMITT, R. K. and POWELL, C. E. (editors). Authors of plant names. A list of authors of scientific names of plants, with recommended standard form of their names including abbreviations. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1992. Pp [4], 732. Price: £ 24.00. ISBN: 0-947643-44-3." Archives of Natural History 21, no. 1 (February 1994): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1994.21.1.141a.

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Corrigan, Desmond. "Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition−an Ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland By David E. Allen and Gabrielle Hatfield (Natural History Museum, London, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). Timber Press, Portland, OR. 2004. 431 pp. 91/4× 61/4in. $29.95. ISBN 0-88192-638-8." Journal of Natural Products 67, no. 12 (December 2004): 2154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/np030766n.

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DICKSON, J. H. "J. K. BOWDEN. John Lightfoot. His work and travels with a biographical introduction and a catalogue of the Lightfoot herbarium. The Bentham-Moxon Trust, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh: ‘1989’ [1990]. Pp [6], 255; illustrated. Price: none stated. ISBN 0-913196-51-7." Archives of Natural History 18, no. 2 (June 1991): 277–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1991.18.2.277b.

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NELSON, E. CHARLES. "DORR, L.J. Plant collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. A biographical and bibliographical guide to individuals and groups who have collected herbarium material of algae, bryophytes, fungi, lichens, and vascular plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1997. Pp xlvi, 524; with CD-ROM. £65.00. ISBN 1-900347-18-0." Archives of Natural History 25, no. 2 (June 1998): 294–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.1998.25.2.294a.

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Green, Laura, Marie-Hélène Weech, Robyn Drinkwater, and Jacek Wajer. "Digitisation at Three UK Herbaria Contributes Towards Food Security and Sustainable Timber Use." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (June 18, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37092.

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The digitisation of herbarium collections has shown to provide a growing resource in conservation science. Mobilising the data on portals such as GBIF allows researchers to access key taxonomic, habitat and geographical data that would otherwise be unavailable unless institutions are physically visited. These data are used notably in conservation assessments, distribution studies and publication of new species (Canteiro et al. 2019). The herbarium specimens held in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Natural History Museum, London, and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh are an unparalleled resource, estimated to hold representatives of around 85% of known plant species. By working collectively for the first time on a non-type material digitisation project, the three institutions collaborated to generate data for the subtribe Phaseolinae and rosewoods totalling 37,000 legume specimens. This pilot project was made possible through Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)-allocated, Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding. This aid money is distributed by the UK government in its “global efforts to defeat poverty, tackle instability and create prosperity in developing countries”. This project focused on two case-studies: Study i. Supporting development of dry beans as a sustainable and resilient crop. Beans from the subtribe Phaseolinae, including cowpeas, lablab and wild beans, are extremely tolerant of poor-quality soils and drought. As a consequence they are particularly suitable for the low-input agricultural production systems. An estimated 14.5 million hectares of land is used for planting of cowpea each year with around 80% of that in Development Assistance Committee countries in sub Saharan Africa. Study ii. Aiding conservation and sustainable use of rosewoods and padauk (Dalbergia L.f. and Pterocarpus Jacq.). Dalbergia is distributed throughout tropical Asia, Africa and the Americas with many species being regionally endemic. Species also vary in habit from shrubs and trees to robust lianas. Pterocarpus is also pantropically distributed in a wide variety of habitats. However, suitable habitat across the natural range of these genera is now limited for many species due to a range of threats, namely deforestation, forest conversion for agriculture/human development, and logging. The timber from many species of Dalbergia and Pterocarpus has long been prized for its high-quality wood used for construction, fine furniture, cabinet work, marquetry and inlay, ethnic carvings, pianos, guitars and other musical instruments. All Dalbergia and most of the timber species of Pterocarpus are now listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix II and the Brazilian D. nigra is listed on Appendix I. There is a huge illegal trade in these genera and serial depletion across the globe is a real and substantial risk to their survival (Winfield et al. 2016). This project used novel high-throughput methodologies and acted as a pilot study for future collaborative mass digitisation efforts. Specimens were taken from the collections, barcoded and minimal data fields captured, before high resolution images were created and the specimens returned. A subset of these was further subjected to full or partial label transcription via the use of the Atlas of Living Australia's DigiVol crowdsourcing platform or via in-house data capture. The resulting datasets will be made available via GBIF and partner sites and will be used to perform gap analyses on the collections across the institutions. We will examine the benefits of combined institutional data for these groups, assess how many species are represented in total and the geographic coverage of these collections. Use of the data will be measured by the number of downloads from GBIF and observing in-house use cases. Two research projects have just begun within Kew, using the data gathered for Pterocarpus and Lablab Adans., georeferencing for which is already underway and will contribute to conservation assessments and other measurable outputs. A data paper is planned which will also assist with tracking future use of the data set and help demonstrate the impact of the digitisation.

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Le Roux, Marianne, Markus Döring, Anne Bruneau, Joe Miller, Rafaël Govaerts, Nick Black, Gwilym Lewis, and Carole Sinou. "A Collective Effort to Update the Legume Checklist." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5 (September 17, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75377.

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Taxonomic names are critical to the communication of biodiversity—they link data together whether it be distribution data, traits or phylogeny. Large taxonomic groups, such as many plant families, are globally distributed as is the taxonomic expertise of the family. A growing knowledge base requires collaboration to develop an up-to-date checklist as a research foundation. The legume (Fabaceae) community has a strong history of collaboration including the International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS), which curated the names but ILDIS is no longer up to date. In 2020, under the umbrella of the Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG), a group of taxonomists began updating the legume taxonomy as part of a larger collaboration around a legume data portal. Currently the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is the most up-to-date reference and was used as the starting point for the project. The workflow begins with over 80 volunteer taxonomic experts updating the checklist in their specialty area. These lists are manually collated, centrally creating a consensus taxonomy with synonyms. Any taxonomic conflicts are adjudicated within the group. The checklist then undergoes a comprehensive nomenclature assessment at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and becomes part of the WCVP. This checklist was submitted to the Catalogue of Life Checklist Bank and is integrated as the preferred legume checklist in the GBIF taxonomic backbone. After one round of taxonomic curation, 38% of the legume names in GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), which were previously unmatched to WCVP, are now connected to GBIF names, therefore also improving the occurrence records of those species. The GBIF taxonomic backbone contains names found on herbarium specimens and in the literature, which are not currently part of the legume expert community checklist or WCVP. This list of unresolved names will be forwarded to the legume community for curation, thereby developing a cycle of data improvement. It is anticipated that after a few rounds of expert curation, the WCVP and GBIF taxonomies will converge. At each cycle, a snapshot of GBIF occurrences is taken and the improvement of the occurrences is quantified to measure the value of the expert taxonomic work. The current checklist is also available via Catalogue of Life and soon via the World Flora Online to support research. In this talk, we describe the workflow and impact of the expert curated legume taxonomy.

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Lohonya, Krisztina, Laurence Livermore, Jacek Wajer, Robyn Crowther, and Elizabeth Devenish. "Digitisation of the Natural History Museum’s collection of Dalbergia, Pterocarpus and the subtribe Phaseolinae (Fabaceae, Faboideae)." Biodiversity Data Journal 10 (November 14, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.10.e94939.

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In 2018, the Natural History Museum (NHMUK, herbarium code: BM) undertook a pilot digitisation project together with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (project Lead) and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to collectively digitise non-type herbarium material of the subtribe Phaseolinae and the genera Dalbergia L.f. and Pterocarpus Jacq. (rosewoods and padauk), all from the economically important family of legumes (Leguminosae or Fabaceae). These taxonomic groups were chosen to provide specimen data for two potential use cases: 1) to support the development of dry beans as a sustainable and resilient crop; 2) to aid conservation and sustainable use of rosewoods and padauk. Collectively, these use case studies support the aims of the UK’s Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)-allocated, Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding. We present the images and metadata for 11,222 NHMUK specimens. The metadata includes label transcription and georeferencing, along with summary data on geographic, taxonomic, collector and temporal coverage. We also provide timings and the methodology for our transcription and georeferencing protocols. Approximately 35% of specimens digitised were collected in ODA-listed countries, in tropical Africa, but also in South East Asia and South America.

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Cribb, Phillip. "Slipper orchids in art and science." Lankesteriana 13, no. 3 (April 30, 2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/lank.v13i3.14359.

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The lady’s slippers, orchids with showy and unusual flowers with considerable diversity in shape, size and colour, are amongst the most popular of all orchids in science and horticulture. Consequently, the botanical and horticultural literature on them is extensive. Artists and designers have also been intrigued by them and they feature in many illustrated botanical and horticultural books and decorative items, from tapestries to porcelain and stamps. In this article, the history of slipper orchids is illustrated by reference to illustrations of them, mostly in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew.

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"First person – Tom Carruthers." Biology Open 11, no. 2 (February 15, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.059205.

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ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tom Carruthers is first author on ‘ exTREEmaTIME: a method for incorporating uncertainty into divergence time estimates’, published in BiO. Tom conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Professor Robert Scotland's lab in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Dr William Baker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, working on determining the extent to which large molecular phylogenies provide information about evolutionary history.

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Alcorn, Keith. "‘His utter unfitness for a commercial collector’." Journal of the History of Collections, July 29, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhac032.

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Abstract Non-European or ‘exotic’ plants became prestigious collectable items in the early nineteenth century. Although unpaid collectors contributed greatly to the discovery of new plants, systematic sponsored collecting became increasingly important after 1800 in Britain. While sharing features of natural history collecting, the organization and sponsorship of exotic plant collecting in the first half of the nineteenth century in Britain exhibits several distinctive features, notably the involvement of commercial sponsors and cooperation between commercial and scientific bodies. Using the Directors’ Correspondence of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this article describes how individuals, consortia of sponsors and subscription systems assembled finance for plant collecting. The article demonstrates the extent to which plant introductions depended on a structured trade in plants, in which commercial nurseries played a central role. Plant collecting must be understood as an episode not only in the history of garden design, but also in the history of collections.

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"Book reviews: Man of the world." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 49, no. 2 (July 31, 1995): 336–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1995.0034.

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Sir Joseph Banks: a global perspective . Edited by R.E.R. Banks, B. Elliott, J.G. Hawkes, D. King-Hele & G.Ll. Lucas (eds), Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1994. Pp. ii+235. £12.00. ISBN 0-947643-61-3 Eight sponsoring bodies, 20 authors, 14 substantive contributions: the major conference held at the Royal Society in April 1993 in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sir Joseph Banks was on a scale surely befitting a man of such diverse activities and far reaching ambitions. In its turn it has now received its own commemoration in print - no less fittingly, with five editors. In an appetizing opening to the volume, Harold B. Carter provides a magisterial distillation of his unrivalled knowledge of the basic biographical facts. Largely responsible for the altogether more benign and admiring view now taken of Banks, he helpfully reminds us afresh of the strong personality, the forceful intellect and the organizing power. Correcting the myth that Banks was biased against the physical sciences and emphasizing the key importance of his friendship with Henry Cavendish, he depicts him as personifying the transition from early 18th-century virtuosity to 19th-century science. Despite the handicap of near- crippling gout, from a comparatively early age, Banks parlayed a well-placed social position to the point where he was virtually playing Colbert to George Ill’s Louis Quatorze, for 30 or more years acting effectively ‘as a sort of Permanent Secretary to a Ministry of Science and Technology’

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"Sir George Taylor, 15 February 1904 - 12 November 1993." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 41 (November 1995): 458–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1995.0027.

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George Taylor was a major British figure in flowering plant taxonomy during the period from 1930 to 1970. A Scot, he was trained at Edinburgh University and was first employed (in 1928) in the Botany Department of the British Museum (Natural History) as assistant in the herbarium, then as Deputy Keeper of Botany and finally as Keeper, coming into contact with all the influential currents of plant taxonomy of his day. This experience, coupled with his life-long interest in gardening, made him the ideal person to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew when Sir Edward Salisbury retired in 1956. Taylor spent 15 very active years at Kew, and then, at an age when most are thinking of retiring, took on a new career as Director of the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, a post which he held for 18 years until illness made it impossible for him to continue. Over this long period, his influence on flowering plant taxonomy and gardening in Britain and abroad was enormous and widely recognized.

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