Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Specimens Distributed Book, Vol 1, 1881-1901
This file contains a transcription of all entries in the first of two 'Specimens Distributed' books which documents objects dispersed from the Kew Museum of Economic Botany between 1881 and 1901. The file contains page by page links to a high-resolution digital copy of this book which has been uploaded to the Biodiversity Heritage Library website (https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.145301).
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:
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/geography/research/mobile-museum/home.aspx
https://www.kew.org/science/collections/economic-botany-collection
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/156209#/summary
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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