Stories
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
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
- Archives and manuscripts
Herbals: 16th cent.
Date: Middle 16th centuryReference: MS.338- Archives and manuscripts
Herbals: 16th cent.
Date: Middle 16th centuryReference: MS.339- Archives and manuscripts
Herbals: 16th cent.
Date: Middle 16th centuryReference: MS.340- Archives and manuscripts
Herbals: 16th cent.
Date: Late 16th centuryReference: MS.343- Archives and manuscripts
Herbals: 16th cent.
Date: Late 16th centuryReference: MS.342