Kew Gardens LAA Team

@Kew_LAA

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    Our latest post celebrates the bicentenary of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad and explores its relationship to Kew. Established in 1818, RBG Trinidad is one of the oldest gardens in the West Indies in continuous existence

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    : Astragalus armatus subsp. armatus is a member of the legume family (Fabaceae). by Pierre-Joseph Redouté for Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière's "Icones plantarum Syriæ rariorum" (1791-1812). Contributed to by :

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    Portugal, Switzerland, France, Yorkshire... some of the plants in Princess Augusta's garden were very well travelled!

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  4. 25 jun.

    Some of the new acquisitions to our libraries - including recent Kew publications - if you're in the area, see for yourself weekdays 10am-4pm off Kew Green

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  5. 22 jun.

    New on the archive of the Kew Guild, founded in 1893 as a society for past and present staff to stay in touch with one another, whilst promoting members' botanical and horticultural knowledge: still going strong today!

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  6. 20 jun.

    And we're off! This week sees the 50th annual meeting of the Council of Botanical & Horticultural Libraries & the 25th meeting of its European equivalent in New York. Two of our staff are attending this special meeting on the future of Botanical & Horticultural Libraries.

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  7. 20 jun.

    For a beautiful Chinese watercolour painted in the early 1800’s from the collection here at Kew which originally belonged to the physician and amateur botanist & entomologist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (inventor of the Wardian Case for transporting live plants)

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    11 jun.

    For , explore the plants of Damascus, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus and the surrounding regions in Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière's "Icones plantarum Syriæ rariorum" (1791-1812), recently digitized in by :

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    14 jun.

    Cam Sharp Jones shares the trials and tribulations of collecting plants by Joseph Hooker in the 19th C. Amazing that so many made the journey back to London

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    Interesting how many scientific descriptions and accounts from early explorations included details on how the various species taste

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    Illustrations, along with text descriptions were key in accompanying botanical specimens in their recording & preservation.

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  12. 14 jun.

    We're delighted to be presenting on Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's preservation of specimens at

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    So cool to see the oldest manuscript in – ‘Ortus Sanitatis’ manuscript dating from c1370 😍

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  14. 10 jun.

    New paying particular attention to two English books on from the nineteenth century

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  15. 9 jun.

    In 1830 plant collector William Hamilton told the Plymouth Botanical & Horticultural Society that he favoured the garden as an attraction & a more moral and salubrious alternative to the gin house, but that a library was better! What do you think? 🌿 🍸

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  16. 8 jun.

    And a THANK YOU to our 2500 followers! Have a good weekend everyone

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  17. 8 jun.

    This we would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all the wonderful volunteers in the library, art & archives who generously share their time & skills. Here is our Friday library team.

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  18. 5 jun.

    We've a new item ! Icones plantarum Syriae rariorum of 1791-1812 by the French botanist Jacques Julien Houtton de Labillardiere, which includes many fine engravings such is this Pyrethrum

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  19. 3 jun.

    In our last tweet Darwin had sketched… the teeth of a Megatherium (giant sloth)! These are one of the largest land mammals to have ever lived, roaming South America consuming a plant based diet (image from R. Owen's 1861 memoir)

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  20. 2 jun.

    Last week we welcomed 40 enthusiastic Y5 students from to learn about Charles Darwin & his letters to J. S. Henslow from the Beagle voyage, held in our : we asked the students what Darwin had sketched in this 1834 letter. Can you guess?

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