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
University of Perugia, 17th century
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7153- Archives and manuscripts
Hermann's Lectures on Materia Medica
Date: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.MSL.76- Archives and manuscripts
Herbals: 17th cent.
Date: Middle 17th centuryReference: MS.344- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Herbals: 17th cent.
Date: Middle 17th centuryReference: MS.345- Archives and manuscripts
Munting, Abraham (1626-1683)
Munting, Abraham, 1626-1683Date: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.3651