Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Distribution Events, 1847-1990
This spreadsheet contains all recorded data on distributions or dispersals of specimens and artefacts from the Kew Museum of Economic Botany between 1847 and 1900, arranged by 'event', ie single records documenting a donation (usually with a specific date) which may include multiple items. (A second spreadsheet on Figshare, arranged by item, includes further details of individual objects and sources). The data is based on information within Kew's 'Specimens Distributed' books for the period 1881-1990, supplemented by archival data from a variety of other sources at Kew and elsewhere. The file includes data on the date of the distribution event, recipient name, institution, location and number of objects, together with links where appropriate to the relevant page of the Specimens Distributed books or Schools Letter books which have been digitised and are available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website.
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mobilemuseum
https://www.kew.org/science/collections/economic-botany-collection
Funding
The Mobile Museum project (PI Felix Driver, CI Mark Nesbitt) was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council ('The mobile museum: economic botany in circulation', AH/N00941X/1).
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- Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
- Plant biology not elsewhere classified
- Archival, repository and related studies
- British history
- Heritage, archive and museum studies not elsewhere classified
- Digital heritage
- Environmental philosophy
- Heritage and cultural conservation
- Historical studies not elsewhere classified
- History and philosophy of science
- Critical heritage, museum and archive studies
- Anthropology not elsewhere classified
- Economic history
- Other education not elsewhere classified
- Human geography not elsewhere classified
- Archaeology not elsewhere classified
