<p>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 'item', ie distinguishing each documented
object whether distributed individually or as part of a group of objects
donated in the same 'event'. (A separate spreadsheet on Figshare, arranged by
distribution event, includes further details of recipient name,
institution and location). 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 information on the date of the distribution, event record, description
and type of object, place and region of origin, donor name if available and
archival source, together with links where appropriate to the relevant page of
the Specimens Distributed books which have been digitised and are available on
the Biodiversity Heritage Library website. </p><p><br></p><p>
<br></p><p><a href="https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mobilemuseum">https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mobilemuseum</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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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).