Stories
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
Catalogue
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A singular remedy : cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820 / Stefanie Gänger.
Gänger, StefanieDate: 2021- Pictures
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A map of Paraguay and surrounding area, illustrating where cinchona (quinine) was allegedly first discovered in 1626(?). Etching by D.V. Rossi.
Reference: 16306i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001430: Reproduction of page 1 of a handwritten manuscript possibly the first draft (or and abstract) of the Holoscript of Hipólito Ruiz López
Date: 21 November 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/13/32Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
[Box of miscellaneaous pamphlets].
Date: 1895-1987- Books
[Box of offprints by F.N.L. Poynter].
Poynter, F. N. L. (Frederick Noël Lawrence), 1908-1979.Date: [1947-1973]