Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Object Dispersals to Schools, 1877-1982
Felix Driver
10.17637/rh.9573956.v2
https://royalholloway.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Schools_dispersals_data_with_BHL_links/9573956
<p>This dataset is a record of
object dispersals from the Kew Museum of Economic Botany to schools
between 1877 and 1982. It is based on entries in the 'Specimens Distributed'
books (or exit books) in the Museum archive, including date of
dispersal; name of recipient; name of school; level, type and
denomination of school; number of objects; and any other information
given in the books. This is supplemented by information from schools archival correspondence
from 'Schools Letter Books', consisting of correspondence to Kew. There are
item-level links to original archive sources - both exit books and schools
letter books (volume 1 only) - available on the Biodiversity Heritage
Library website (<a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/">https://biodiversitylibrary.org</a>).</p><p><br></p><p></p><p>This
dataset was created as part of research for the Mobile Museum research
project, a collaboration between Royal Holloway, University of London, and
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Links:
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<br></p><p><a href="https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/geography/research/mobile-museum/home.aspx">https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/geography/research/mobile-museum/home.aspx</a></p><p>
<br></p><p><a href="https://www.kew.org/science/collections/economic-botany-collection">https://www.kew.org/science/collections/economic-botany-collection</a></p><p>
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