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Graham, Andrew. "England Before and After the Hurricane of 1987." Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 16, no. 10 (October 1, 1990): 269–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.48044/jauf.1990.060.

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The October 1986 hurricane that struck southern England was the first of its magnitude since 1703. Extensive destruction and damage occurred to numerous old trees in forests and gardens. Morris Arboretum arborists traveled from Philadelphia to Sussex County, England to help the staff of Wakehurst Place (an outpost of Royal Botanic Garden, Kew) restore their garden. While there we observed damage patterns, and tree species wind tolerance while noting significance tree losses to the scientific collections and garden landscapes. The Royal Botanic Garden's data collection forms may prove useful to American arborists in collecting and analyzing storm damage data. The Morris Arboretum team cleared debris from a winter interest garden, removed overhead hazards from a half mile of walking paths, and made life-long friends of grateful Wakehurst staff.

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FIGUEIREDO, ESTRELA, DAVID WILLIAMS, and GIDEON F. SMITH. "The identity of John Rattray, diatomist and collector on the Buccaneer expedition (1885–1886) to West Africa." Phytotaxa 408, no. 4 (July 4, 2019): 296–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.408.4.7.

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Herbarium records show that during the second half of the 19th century John Rattray collected several plant specimens at ports of call along the West African coast (Canary Islands, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, São Tomé, Príncipe, and Angola). At the herbarium (K) of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, four such specimens are databased, three of which can be examined online. At the herbarium (E) of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 specimens are databased, twenty of which are imaged. All the specimens we examined have printed labels stating ‘Collected by John Rattray, H.M. Challenger Commission, Edinburgh’ with only a handwritten indication of the locality, for example ‘Loanda’ (Luanda, Angola). The collecting date has been omitted from the labels and there are no further details on the specimens. An investigation of the literature revealed that there is some confusion regarding the origin of the material and the identity of John Rattray, the collector.

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Gasson, P. E., and D. F. Cutler. "Root Anatomy of 17 Genera Growing in the British Isles." IAWA Journal 11, no. 1 (1990): 3–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22941932-90001142.

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Roots of 23 woody species are described anatomically. They are mostly from species uncommonly planted in the British Isles, and were unavailable at the time the Root Identification Manual of Trees and Shrubs (Cutler et al. 1987) was being written. They were collected from trees blown down in the stonn of October 1987, which uprooted over 15 million trees in the south and east of England. All but one (Tetracentron sinensis) are from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, or Wakehurst Place.

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Gavin, Traude. "Seven Early Iban Kain Kebat." Textile Museum Journal 46, no. 1 (2019): 168–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2019.a932753.

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Abstract: Early museum collections of Iban textiles from Borneo generally date from the late 1880s. This paper presents seven Iban ikat skirt cloths (kain kebat) with accession dates in the mid-nineteenth century: six cloths donated by James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the 1850s, and a slightly earlier specimen at the Ethnological Museum, Berlin, collected between 1846 and 1848 by Oscar von Kessel in Kalimantan. This paper follows the convoluted accession paths of the James Brooke donation and reviews the events, institutions, and personages involved in the context of early Victorian England; it catalogues the dispersal of Kessel’s extensive collection of over a thousand objects to various European institutions; and finally, the paper considers the implications of these seven early specimens for our understanding of Iban weaving history.

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Lerch, Virginia D., and Timothy Ng. "GENETIC AND PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY WITHIN SPECIES AND GROUPS OF AN IMPATIENS GERMPLASM COLLECTION." HortScience 25, no. 9 (September 1990): 1164a—1164. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.25.9.1164a.

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Since the introduction of New Guinea impatiens in 1980 the genus Impatiens has remained the number one selling bedding plant in the U.S. However, basic information concerning the genus is lacking. This study was undertaken to estimate genetic and phenotypic diversity within species and groups of an Impatiens germplasm collection representing seven countries. It includes plants from the 1970 plant expedition co-sponsored by USDA-ARS and the Longwood Foundation (Kennett Square, PA); donations from the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, England); and ovule cultured interspecific hybrids created by Dr. Toru Arisumi (USDA, Beltsville, MD). The collection was grown in a common environment and characterized for 31 qualitative and quantitative morphological traits, and electrophoretically characterized for several enzymes using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Evidence concerning putative interspecific hybrids and relationships among Impatiens groups based on morphological and electrophoretic characterization and diversity indices will be presented. Isozyme patterns lending support to hypotheses of center of origin, migration and evolution of Impatiens will also be discussed.

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COHEN, ALAN. "Mary Elizabeth Barber: South Africa's first lady natural historian." Archives of Natural History 27, no. 2 (June 2000): 187–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2000.27.2.187.

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An account of the life of a nineteenth century South African frontiers-woman who, without any formal education, made a name for herself as a plant collector and natural historian. Born in England, she emigrated as a child of 2 years of age with her family as one of the British settlers to the Grahamstown area in 1820. From the age of 20 she corresponded with several eminent English biologists, and had scientific papers on botany and entomology published in a number of journals. She was later involved in the early discoveries of diamonds and gold in South Africa. One of her sons was amongst the first to see and paint the Victoria Falls after their discovery by Livingstone. With her younger brother James Henry Bowker she collected and sent back a large number of plants, many of them previously unknown, to the herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She collaborated with her older brother Thomas Holden Bowker in building up one of the earliest collections of stone-age implements in South Africa, some of which are now in the British Museum.

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Harris, James G. "Pilose Braya, Braya pilosa Hooker (Cruciferae; Brassicaceae), an Enigmatic Endemic of Arctic Canada." Canadian Field-Naturalist 118, no. 4 (October 1, 2004): 550. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v118i4.57.

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Braya pilosa Hooker, Pilose Braya, has been poorly understood among North American botanists due to a paucity of fruiting specimens for study. This has resulted in confusion about the taxonomic position of the taxon within Braya, and has led to speculation about its generic status. An examination of fruiting specimens from the Royal Botanic Garden Herbarium at Kew, England reveals that B. pilosa is correctly placed in the genus Braya, and that it is a distinctive member of the genus deserving recognition at the specific level. I discuss the historical evidence that B. pilosa may not have been collected since 1850 due to its extremely restricted distribution on the Cape Bathurst Peninsula of the Northwest Territories of Canada. I also present evidence suggesting that B. pilosa is diploid and may be a parent species to some of the more widespread members of the genus, all of which are polyploid. Its closest living relative is probably B. thorild-wulffii.

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Agnew, A. D. Q. "Plants for Arid Lands: Proceeding of the Kew International Conference on Economic Plants for Arid Lands held in the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, 23–27 July 1984." Journal of Arid Environments 18, no. 1 (January 1990): 120–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-1963(18)30880-2.

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Hawthorne, W. "J. M. Lock 1989. Legumes of Africa. A check-list. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. 618 pages. ISBN 0-947643-10-9. Price: £15.00 (paperback)." Journal of Tropical Ecology 6, no. 3 (August 1990): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026646740000465x.

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Hopper, Stephen D. "From Botany Bay to Breathing Planet: an Australian perspective on plant diversity and global sustainability." Pacific Conservation Biology 19, no. 4 (2013): 356. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc130356.

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With a special focus on Australia, this paper proposes that plant diversity is fundamentally important for sustainable living at a time of unprecedented global change. The establishment of Australia as a nation is intimately linked with Botany Bay, named by Captain James Cook following the enthusiasm for novel botanical discoveries made by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on the Endeavour’s first Australian landfall in 1770. On returning to England, Banks was introduced to King George III, and they became firm friends, the King inviting Banks to become honorary Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew in west London. Today, Kew is the world’s largest botanical garden, with the most diverse scientific collections of plants on Earth, leading research, and conservation projects like the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership. Plant diversity has never been more important than now to help with solutions towards sustainable livelihoods. This paper touches upon global plant diversity patterns, ongoing scientific discovery, and strategies that have helped and will help towards humans living with and sustainably using plant diversity. Such approaches are embraced in the Breathing Planet Programme, Kew’s strategy with partners for inspiring and delivering science-based plant conservation worldwide, aimed at enhancing the quality of life at a time of unprecedented global change. Today’s plant science and cross-cultural learning with Australia’s Aboriginal people are also helping better understand the astounding place that Banks first stepped onto at Botany Bay, and demonstrating that Australia has much to teach the world about plant diversity and human enrichment on ancient landscapes. OCBIL Theory is explored briefly to exemplify this contention; OCBIL is an acronym for ‘old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes’.

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McEwen, Ron. "The Northern Lads :." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 11 (October 29, 2013): 109–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2013.55.

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It is well known that a disproportionate number of plant collectors for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the late 18th and 19th centuries were Scottish gardeners. Another important source of plants for Kew in its early days were the specialist London plant nurseries that were run by Scots. Less well known is the preponderance of Scots found in other areas of Kew’s work – gardeners in charge of the botanic garden, curators of various departments and gardeners who transferred to colonial botanic gardens. This Scottish phenomenon was not unique to Kew: it was found in other botanical and non-botanical institutions in London and the provinces. This paper charts the extent of the phenomenon and, on the basis of 18th- and 19th-century sources, analyses its causes.

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Schmid, Rudolf, and Ray Desmond. "Kew: The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens." Taxon 45, no. 1 (February 1996): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1222614.

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PRANCE, GHILLEAN. "The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew." Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161, no. 2 (October 2009): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00937.x.

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GUTHRIE, J. L., A. ALLEN, C. R. JONES, SIR W. HOOKER, W. HOOKER, D. BURTON, and R. TURNER. "ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW: RESTORATION OF PALM HOUSE." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 84, no. 6 (December 1988): 1145–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/iicep.1988.795.

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Williams, D. J. "A new genus and two new species of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) from South Africa on bulbs and corms imported into Great Britain." Bulletin of Entomological Research 79, no. 4 (November 1989): 643–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007485300018794.

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AbstractCormiococcus gen. n. is described for C. dieramae sp. n., a mealybug collected in South Africa on the corms of Dierama sp., imported to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, UK. Another mealybug species, Chorizococcus lachenaliae sp. n., is described from the bulbs of Lachenaliae sp., imported from South Africa to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Chorizococcus bardus (De Lotto) comb. n., originally described from South Africa on bulbs of Narcissus capensis, is transferred from Maconellicoccus Ezzat.

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Paszko, Beata, COLIN A. PENDRY, Sutrishna Kar, and Paramjit Singh. "Typification of Hooker’s name Calamagrostis munroana var. stricta (Poaceae, Agrostidinae)." Phytotaxa 203, no. 1 (March 19, 2015): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.203.1.7.

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Hooker’s name Calamagrostis munroana var. stricta (Poaceae, Agrostidinae) is lectotypified by a specimen housed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K). Pencil drawings on the Kew sheet and field labels on the CAL duplicate have provided clues to the identification of C. munroana var. stricta and to the collection locality.

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CHATAN, WANNACHAI, and WILAWAN PROMPROM. "Lectotypification of the name Ardisia stipitata Fletcher (Primulaceae)." Phytotaxa 314, no. 2 (July 25, 2017): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.314.2.13.

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The typification of the name Ardisia stipitata is discussed. The protologue of the name and the original material are evaluated. A specimen from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K) is designated as the lectotype.

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Cowell, Carly R., Leigh-Anne Bullough, Sonia Dhanda, Vicki Harrison Neves, Ed Ikin, Jessica Moore, Rachel Purdon, China Williams, Julia Willison, and Sharon J. Willoughby. "Fortuitous Alignment: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Sustainable Development Goals." Sustainability 14, no. 4 (February 18, 2022): 2366. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14042366.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are aimed at improving human well-being at a global scale, whilst enhancing and preserving global biodiversity. Recently, botanic gardens worldwide have become more conservation focused, and gardens are increasingly influential in scientific roles that address both biodiversity loss and human well-being—particularly in urban areas. As the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew) launched its new Manifesto for Change in 2021, this paper outlines how the organisation currently contributes to the SDGs and examines where the work of botanic gardens can have the biggest impact. This paper focuses on the use of policy engagement, education and outreach, and scientific research to document Kew’s contribution to the goals so far, both in the UK and elsewhere. The SDGs address high level global objectives, many of which are not directly relatable to the activities of a single organisation. Kew’s approach to this challenge is to seek out the intention of the Goals by interrogating their subsidiary Targets. We then translate the intention of any given SDG into actions that are meaningful to our specific practice. Many of RBG Kew’s existing projects and programmes address the SDGs and we are aligning our aims with them more closely still.

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Simmons, John B. E. "CONSERVATION AND THE LIVING COLLECTIONS ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW." Curtis's Botanical Magazine 3, no. 1 (February 1986): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8748.1986.tb00293.x.

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Ali, Natasha S., and Clare Trivedi. "Botanic gardens and climate change: a review of scientific activities at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Biodiversity and Conservation 20, no. 2 (December 7, 2010): 295–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-010-9944-4.

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Goyder, David, Pat Griggs, Mark Nesbitt, Lynn Parker, and Kiri Ross-Jones. "SIR JOSEPH HOOKER'S COLLECTIONS AT THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW." Curtis's Botanical Magazine 29, no. 1 (March 30, 2012): 66–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8748.2012.01772.x.

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Ward, Marilyn, and John Flanagan. "Portraying plants: illustrations collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Art Libraries Journal 28, no. 2 (2003): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200013080.

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The Library & Archives at Kew hold one of the world’s greatest collections of botanical illustration, assembled over the last 200 years. A resource well-known to the natural history community, it contains much to interest art historians. Using this historically rich heritage our forward thinking includes acquisition of more contemporary items and the formulation of a digital strategy for 21st-century access and exploitation.

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Wickens, G. E. "Legumes of Africa. A Check-list. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens." Journal of Arid Environments 17, no. 3 (November 1989): 360–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-1963(18)30896-6.

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Cornish, Caroline, Peter Gasson, and Mark Nesbitt. "The Wood Collection (Xylarium) Of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." IAWA Journal 35, no. 1 (2014): 85–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22941932-00000050.

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The wood collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (United Kingdom) has its origin in the founding of Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany in 1847. In the nineteenth century specimens came from explorers and botanists; from imperial institutions such as the Indian Forest Department, and from international exhibitions (world’s fairs). Woods were labelled with their names and properties, creating an educational exhibit aimed particularly at forestry students. In the early twentieth century wood specimens from aristocratic estates formed the basis of a new museum of British Forestry. The foundation of the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew in 1876 led to more research in plant anatomy, but sustained research in wood anatomy and the creation of a major collection of plant anatomy slides dates from the 1930s. Since that time, accessions have come from other wood collections (sometimes the transfer of whole collections), from Kew’s botanical expeditions in Brazil and Southeast Asia, and often as institutional or personal gifts from wood anatomists in other countries. The woods now number 34,314 and form part of the Economic Botany Collection, kept in a purpose-built research store and with a collection database available online. As well as enabling plant anatomy research, the woods are increasingly used by historians, and for wood isotope studies, biochemistry etc.

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Braithwaite, Katherine. "Women Working in Botanic Gardens Globally." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 13 (November 10, 2015): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2015.73.

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This paper represents a condensed account of a thesis produced during the author’s studies at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The body of work represents the findings from a study into the current status of the barriers and opportunities for women working in botanic gardens. The research makes a global assessment of the careers of women working presently in botanic horticulture and science, from the perspective of those women working in the industry. A survey of 29 questions was produced and distributed to over 800 botanic gardens. With responses from women working across the globe, the report measures and correlates qualitative and quantitative data from participants, assessing areas such as their educational history, opportunities in their workplace, perceived barriers and hopes for the future. The survey produced 573 responses, with women participating from all parts of the globe from the USA to Yemen, New Zealand to Brazil. The report includes an introduction, methodology, a short literature review, the significant findings and conclusions arising from the data.

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Breman, Elinor, Daniel Ballesteros, Elena Castillo-Lorenzo, Christopher Cockel, John Dickie, Aisyah Faruk, Katherine O’Donnell, et al. "Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank." Plants 10, no. 11 (November 3, 2021): 2371. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10112371.

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There is a pressing need to conserve plant diversity to prevent extinctions and to enable sustainable use of plant material by current and future generations. Here, we review the contribution that living collections and seed banks based in botanic gardens around the world make to wild plant conservation and to tackling global challenges. We focus in particular on the work of Botanic Gardens Conservation International and the Millennium Seed Bank of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with its associated global Partnership. The advantages and limitations of conservation of plant diversity as both living material and seed collections are reviewed, and the need for additional research and conservation measures, such as cryopreservation, to enable the long-term conservation of ‘exceptional species’ is discussed. We highlight the importance of networks and sharing access to data and plant material. The skill sets found within botanic gardens and seed banks complement each other and enable the development of integrated conservation (linking in situ and ex situ efforts). Using a number of case studies we demonstrate how botanic gardens and seed banks support integrated conservation and research for agriculture and food security, restoration and reforestation, as well as supporting local livelihoods.

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Fitzgerald, Sylvia, and John Flanagan. "UNICORN at Kew: computerising the Library and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Program 27, no. 4 (April 1993): 331–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb047148.

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Leese, I. N. "THE ROLE OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW IN HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION." Acta Horticulturae, no. 350 (November 1993): 235–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.1993.350.36.

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Hepper, F. Nigel. "Nigerian and other African archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." African Research & Documentation 55 (1991): 39–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00015843.

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Most people know Kew only as a public garden with very special greenhouses and other buildings. Few visitors realise that it is a scientific institution with research laboratories, a great herbarium and archives of all descriptions. In the context of this symposium the living collections in the Gardens are unlikely to be applicable as an archive, although there are many specimens of great historical interest, including the world's oldest greenhouse plant (Encephalartos Iongifolius) which is an African species brought from Natal by Mason in the 1770s.Over five million dried specimens are housed here in systematic order. They have been received from collectors all over the world during the last two centuries. The Herbarium is especially rich in tropical African collections, including Nigerian. For example those from Theodor Vogel's Niger Expedition of 1841 formed the basis of Hooker's Niger Flora (1849).

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Schmid, Rudolf. "Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Cumulated Index Kewensis." Taxon 34, no. 2 (May 1985): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1221831.

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Meikle, R. D. "The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Ray Desmond." Curtis's Botanical Magazine 26, no. 1-2 (April 2009): 192–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8748.2009.01648.x.

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Prance, Ghillean T. "A brief history of conservation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Kew Bulletin 65, no. 4 (December 2010): 501–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12225-010-9231-2.

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Larsen, Kai. "Renvoize, S. A. 1998. Gramineas de Bolivia.–Royal Botanic Gardens Kew." Nordic Journal of Botany 18, no. 3 (July 1998): 368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1051.1998.tb01891.x.

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Blume, Ya B., and V. Yu Barshteyn. "Past and present of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in artefacts." Ukrainian Botanical Journal 73, no. 6 (December 30, 2016): 612–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj73.06.612.

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Rahman, M. Oliur, Md Abul Hassan, Md Manzurul Kadir Mia, and Ahmed Mozaharul Huq. "A synoptical account of the Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh." Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 19, no. 1 (June 20, 2012): 63–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v19i1.10943.

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Taxonomy, updated nomenclature and occurrence of the species belonging to the family Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh have been presented. Detailed herbarium study at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (E), British Museum (BM), Bangladesh National Herbarium (DACB) and Dhaka University Salar Khan Herbarium (DUSH) has revealed the occurrence of 32 species under 15 genera of the Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh. The correct name, important synonym(s), salient diagnostic characteristics, specimens examined and distributional notes have been provided for each species. Dichotomous bracketed keys have also been presented for identification of genera and species.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v19i1.10943Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 19(1): 63-78, 2012 (June)

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Thomas, Adrian P. "The Establishment of Calcutta Botanic Garden: Plant Transfer, Science and the East India Company, 1786–1806." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 16, no. 2 (July 2006): 165–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186306005992.

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AbstractCalcutta Botanic Garden occupies a prime riverside site three miles downstream from the centre of Calcutta. It is most famous as the home of the world's largest tree, a vast spreading banyan. Its grand avenues, named after its founders and the fathers of Indian botany, convey something of its former glory. In the nineteenth century it was the greatest of all the colonial botanic gardens and an important scientific institution; two of its superintendents were knighted and one went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the very centre of the imperial botanical network. The Garden is of considerable importance as it was one of the earliest institutions in India based on western science. This survey will look at the reasons for its foundation, and how it successfully established itself in its first twenty years.

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Bavington, Melissa. "Engaging Children with Herbarium Specimens at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew’s Science Festival." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 15, 2018): e25933. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25933.

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The Kew and Wakehurst Science Festivals consists of five days of activities over two weekends. Workshops and tours allow visitors to engage with the scientists and their research. We designed an interactive experience, so children could understand what a herbarium sheet is and the process of making one. The Herbarium accessions an average of 30,000 specimens per year and because specimens need to have a long life and be able to withstand being handled for hundreds of years they need to be ‘mounted’ according to strict protocols and guidelines. Botanical specimens are vital to research at Kew and beyond, providing key scientific data. Once mounted onto herbarium sheets botanical specimens are added to the Herbarium and made widely available to visiting scientists and researchers. Digitising these specimens increases access further through online portals. To achieve a specimen that can be handled for many years the specimens are mounted onto archival paper, along with their labels, before being added to the collection. There are 6 members in RBG Kew’s Specimen Preparation team who work full time to prepare botanical specimens for accession into the Herbarium collection; which currently stands at 7 million specimens and the oldest dates from the 1700s. We simplified this specimen preparation process down to the basic component parts of paper, glue, plant material and pressing. Using material and tools that visitors would be able to find for themselves; art paper, child friendly glue and plant material used in flower crafts we created a hands-on experience for mounting a herbarium specimen. The Science Festival is now in its 3rd year and each year the activity has been modified based on lessons learned over the course of the festival and each year. The stall is immensely popular going from 300 participants in the first year to over 700 in 2017. In the second year we added a new dimension and allowed visitors to image the specimens they created allowing them to zoom in and see plant parts and structures in further detail to highlight the importance of digitisation. These images can be viewed on the Kew Science Flickr group.

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LAMBERT, D., and A. SARKAR. "THE PRINCESS OF WALES CONSERVATORY AT THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW: CONSTRUCTION." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 90, no. 1 (February 1991): 67–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/iicep.1991.13036.

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Cubbin, Tony. "Natal The Garden Colony: Victorian Natal and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." New Contree 36 (December 30, 1994): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/nc.v36i0.541.

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Sim, Jean. "Queen's Parks in Queensland." Queensland Review 19, no. 1 (June 2012): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.3.

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Queen's Park in Maryborough is one of many public gardens established in the nineteenth century in Queensland: in Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Warwick, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns and Cooktown. They were created primarily as places of horticultural experimentation, as well as for recreational purposes. They formed a local area network, with the Brisbane Botanic Garden and the Government Botanist, Walter Hill, at the centre – at least in the 1870s. From here, the links extended to other botanic gardens in Australia, and beyond Australia to the British colonial network managed through the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew. It was an informal network, supplying a knowledge of basic economic botany that founded many tropical agricultural industries and also provided much-needed recreational, educational and inspirational opportunities for colonial newcomers and residents. The story of these parks, from the time when they were first set aside as public reserves by the government surveyors to the present day, is central to the history of urban planning in regional centres. This article provides a statewide overview together with a more in-depth examination of Maryborough's own historic Queen's Park.

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Kumar, E. S. S., S. S. Kumari, and P. E. Roy. "Rediscovery of Ophiorrhiza radicans (Rubiaceae) from the southern Western Ghats, India." TAPROBANICA 5, no. 1 (June 15, 2013): 69–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.47605/tapro.v5i1.93.

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As part of the collection and ex–situ conservation of the rare, endangered and threatened plants of the Southern Western Ghats, Ophiorrhiza radicans Gardner ex Thwaites (1859) was rediscovered from the Rosemala Estate of the Kollam District in Kerala after 119 years of its last record. The identity was confirmed by cross–matching the new collection with the type specimen (Sri Lanka, C.P. Thwaites 1706, K!) housed at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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RALAIVELOARISOA, ANNA BERTHE, KARE LIIMATAINEN, HELENE RALIMANANA, VOLOLONIAINA JEANNODA, STUART CABLE, and TUULA NISKANEN. "Gloeocantharellus andasibensis sp. nov. (Gomphaceae) from Madagascar." Phytotaxa 500, no. 1 (May 7, 2021): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.500.1.4.

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Gloeocantharellus andasibensis sp. nov. is recognized by orange-red basidiomata with a convex to plane, innately fibrillose and viscid pileus, ellipsoid to amygdaliform, small, verrucose basidiospores, and a distinct nrITS sequence. This is the first record of the genus from Madagascar. To improve the understanding of the nomenclature of the genus, the type specimen of G. okapaensis and specimens of G. lateritius and G. corneri accessioned in the fungarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew were also sequenced.

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McNally, Dennis G. "Maurice Mason – farmer, plant hunter and friend to the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 19 (January 19, 2021): 131–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2020.303.

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Maurice Mason is well documented as an accomplished amateur horticulturist and plant collector. His contributions to horticulture were recognised by his guest attendance at the Kew Guild Annual Dinner in 1960 and the award of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Victoria Medal of Honour in the same year. He was generous in sharing his plant collections, and this generosity extended to Ireland. His less well-known contribution to Irish horticulture through the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin is outlined here.

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SMITH, GIDEON F. "The taxonomy and nomenclature of Kalanchoe ×kewensis [K. bentii × K. glaucescens] (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae), a nothospecies produced at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the early 1900s." Phytotaxa 618, no. 3 (October 4, 2023): 274–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.618.3.5.

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The taxonomy and nomenclature of Kalanchoe ×kewensis (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) [hybrid formula: K. bentii × K. glaucescens], an old but widely available hybrid artificially produced at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the early 1900s, are discussed and clarified. The two independently validly published names K. ×kewensis Watson and K. ×kewensis N.E.Br. are neotypified and lectotypified, respectively, to make the latter an illegitimate homonym of the former. An amplified description is provided for the nothospecies, and it is illustrated.

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Mikatadze-Panstulaia, Tsira, Sandro Kolbaia, and Ana Gogoladze. "Safeguarding Wild Plant Genetic Resources of Georgia within the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership." European Journal of Sustainable Development 8, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2019.v8n4p37.

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Working group of the Department of Plant Conservation of the National Botanical Garden of Georgia (NBGG) have been participating in the global Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew since 2005. During the 2005-2018 period, within the scope of MSB-1 and MSB-2, seeds and herbarium samples of more than 1750 plant species and interspecific taxa, belonging to 107 families and 483 genera (more than 41% of Georgia’s flora) – 348 endemics of Caucasus and 151 endemics of Georgia, have been secured in the National Seed Bank of Georgia (NSB). Seed Bank data are managed in BRAHMS (Department of Plant Sciences of Oxford University). The collection of wild plant species is accompanied by the comprehensive database of geographical, botanical and habitat information. Later phase involves laboratory treatment and germination/viability testing (at least 500 seeds per species) and the long-term deposition and storage (under -20◦C temperature) at the National Seed Bank of Georgia. The duplicates of seed collection and herbarium vouchers are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Germination capacity and viability of collections in NSB is determined before cold storage of seeds, while at the MSB already banked seeds are tested.Keywords: Seed bank; Ex-situ conservation; Plant diversity; Botanical garden; Genetic resources

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Flynn, Chris. "The Value of Ecological Plantings in Public Gardens." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 7 (October 31, 2009): 43–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2009.150.

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This paper has been developed from a third year dissertation written as part of the Diploma in Horticulture course at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It serves as an overview of the subject of ecological planting and its potential applications within public gardens. It also outlines some scientific benefits regarding ecological studies, the impact that this type of planting may have on horticulture (both in gardens and the nursery trade), and the educational benefits for the public and school groups. The case study below looks at the viability of representing a section of Snow Gum Grassy Woodland (a vegetation type found in New South Wales, Australia) outside in Coates Wood, Wakehurst Place, UK.

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Cutler, D., and R. Gale. "Charcoal identifications." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 53, s1 (1987): 71–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x0007852x.

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Few identifiable fragments of charcoal were found on the site. The samples recovered were all very small and too few in number to determine the frequency of the species present. Dr D F Cutler and Mrs R Gale of the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew kindly examined and identified the specimens from the enclosure ditches and from the interior respectively. The samples from the ditches were all found to be mineralised, and some were compressed. The following species are present:

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Verdcourt, B. "Additions to the Wild Fauna and Flora of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Kew Bulletin 55, no. 3 (2000): 721. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4118790.

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Verdcourt, B. "Additions to the Wild Fauna and Flora of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Kew Bulletin 43, no. 3 (1988): 437. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4118976.

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Verdcourt, B. "Additions to the Wild Fauna and Flora of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." Kew Bulletin 57, no. 4 (2002): 1007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4115735.

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