Stories
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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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
- Archives and manuscripts
Unsigned paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7226/1Part of: Medicinal Plants: miscellany- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook containing notes on materia medica
Hanbury, Daniel, 1825-1875.Date: December 1860 - May 1863Reference: MS.8358Part of: Hanbury, Daniel (1825-1875), pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspodence between Pontecorvo and Dr U C Battacharyya concerning his trip to India and alpine plant research
Date: 27 Jul 1979 - 23 Dec 1980Reference: UGC 198/5/3/1/20Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 17
Date: February - June 1904Reference: WF/E/03/17 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd