High-resolution copies of the entry books
recording accessions to the Kew Museum of Economic Botany covering the period
1847-1924, held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The source consists of six
bound volumes, with dates of accessions, description of specimens or artefacts
and names (and sometimes addresses) of donors. There is an index to each
volume, arranged by donor names. The files are downloadable in PDF format from
the Biodiversity Heritage Library website (URL above).
The work of digitisation was supported by the
Mobile Museum project, funded by the AHRC.
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).
History
File Formats
Scanned page images of text, downloadable in .pdf format.