Stories
- 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.
- Article
Conflicted and confused about lithium
Covid-19 left Laura Grace Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?
- Article
Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Chinese visiting cards acquired by the expedition
Date: 1861Reference: MS.7593/53-57Part of: Barton, Alfred Bowyer (1825-1905), FRCS- Archives and manuscripts
Expedition to Spitzbergen: journal
Date: 1827Reference: MS.3357Part of: McCormick, Robert (1800-1890)- Archives and manuscripts
Expedition Diary Vol. II
Date: 1904-1905Reference: MS.2268Part of: Dutton, Joseph Everett (1877-1905), and Todd, John Lancelot (1876-1949), tropical medicine specialists- Archives and manuscripts
Expedition to Poland to study Typhus
Date: 1920Reference: MS.4806Part of: Dutton, Joseph Everett (1877-1905), and Todd, John Lancelot (1876-1949), tropical medicine specialists
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Illustrations, largely topographical, relating to the Yangtze expedition
Date: 1861-62Reference: MS.7593Part of: Barton, Alfred Bowyer (1825-1905), FRCS
