Stories
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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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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests
Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
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English Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 1703-1786Reference: MS.8405- Archives and manuscripts
University of Perugia, 17th century
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7153- Archives and manuscripts
Pearson, Richard, L.R.C.P. (1765-1836), Birmingham physician and antiquary
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7492- Books
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Caroli Linnæi Philosophia botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum. Adjectis figuris æneis. Cui accedit Critica Botanica / [Carl von Linné].
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.Date: 1787- Pictures
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Clypeola ionthlaspi: entire flowering plant with separate segments of flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
Reference: 17128i