Stories
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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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.
Catalogue
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Pearson, Richard, L.R.C.P. (1765-1836), Birmingham physician and antiquary
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7492- Books
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Curious remarks and observations in physics, anatomy, chirurgery, chemistry, botany, and medicine. Extracted from the history and memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Containing such useful discoveries as have not been collected by other writers on the same subjects. By Dr. Peter Templeman.
Académie royale des sciences (France)Date: MDCCLIII. - MDCCLIV. [1753-54]- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
Noticias y papeles de la Expedición científica mejicana, dirigida por Sessé / por Enrique Alvarez López.
Alvarez López, Enrique.Date: 1952- Pictures
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Pepperwort (Lepidium orientale): flowering plant, leaf and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
Aubriet, Claude, 1665-1742.Date: [1718]Reference: 20868i