Stories
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
- Article
Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Botany Notes
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: MS.8137- Archives and manuscripts
Tuckerman, Edward (1817-1886), professor of botany, Harvard
Date: 1871Reference: MS.7755/16Part of: Miscellany: United States of America, 19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Chemistry, Medical and Pharmaceutical. Notes on Botany, Materia Medica, Chemistry and Medicine
Date: mid-19th centuryReference: MS.1585
- Books
- Online
A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Date: 1914- Books
A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Green, J. Reynolds (Joseph Reynolds), 1848-1914.Date: 1914